The bodies of 282 victims of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing jet crash near Donetsk have been found by July 21 noon, according to a spokesperson for the Ukrainian government.
“In all, the bodies of 282 victims and 87 body fragments have been
found by noon on July 21. Two hundred fifty-one bodies and 66 fragments
have been loaded into refrigerator railcars,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, Russian-sponsored insurgents in the breakaway Donetsk
People’s Republic (DPR) have been preventing the refrigerators from
leaving the train station in Torez despite numerous appeals on the part
of the Ukrainian government, the OSCE (Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe) and international community, the statement said.
The search for the tragedy victims continues.
It was reported that the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, which was
flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and crashed near Donetsk on July
17, carried 298 people on board.
