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Ukraine begins the delivery of corpses from Malaysia Airlines to Holland
Posted On 23 Jul 2014
Photo: AFP
The first remains of the victims of Flight MH17, shot down in Ukraine, departed on Wednesday to Holland, where a day of national mourning was declared in honor of its 193 citizens who died in the tragedy.
A total of 50 bodies come out on Wednesday in two military planes bound for Holland.
In Kharkov, a city in eastern Ukraine under control of the Kiev government, a minute of silence was held at the airport from where the first plane departed with the remains of the victims shortly before noon (0900 GMT).
Six days after the disaster that left 298 dead in an area controlled by pro-Russian separatists of eastern Ukraine, many bodies could remain in the place where the plane crashed, according to the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
