Ten more victims of the Malaysian Boeing 777 crash in Donetsk region have been identified this week, which brings the total number of identified victims of the disaster to 262.
Of them seven are Dutch nationals and three are citizens of other countries. Taking into consideration previous reports, a total of 242 victims from flight MH17 have been identified, reads a statement posted on the Web site of the government of the Netherlands on Friday.
According to the statement, the next of kin of the identified victims have been informed. At a request of relevant countries’ embassies, the citizenship of the identified victims, who were not from the Netherlands, hasn’t been disclosed.
A team of specialists is currently working on identifying victims of the disaster. However, as was previously stressed, it may take some time to identify all the victims, reads the statement.
The Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777, which was flying from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17. All 298 people on board were killed. They included 192 Dutch citizens (one also had US citizenship), 44 Malaysians, including the 15 crew members, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, ten Britons (one also had South African nationality), four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian and one New Zealander.
