MH17 flight victims

  26 September 2015    Read: 1075
MH17 flight victims
Two Dutch nationals out of the 298 passengers and crew killed in the crash have not been identified so far
Human remains presumably of the victims of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight that crashed in July 2014 have been found in Ukraine, the Dutch Security and Justice Ministry said on Friday.

"The presumed mortal remains and the material were found in the vicinity of the ‘burned site’ near Hrabove, where flight MH17 came down," the ministry said. "The Dutch embassy in Kiev will take care of transport to Kharkiv. From Kharkiv these items will come to the Netherlands."

Two Dutch nationals out of the 298 passengers and crew killed in the crash have not been identified so far. Their relatives were invited to Schiphol airport to attend the ceremony when the National Forensic Investigation Team will hand the remains over to experts.

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