Crews clear debris, bodies from MH17 crash site

  • 10 years ago
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Rescue workers clear debris and bodies from the site of the Malaysian airliner crash in eastern Ukraine's town of Hrabove.

A total of 298 people died as a result of the crash on Thursday (July 17).

Emergency workers, who have to navigate reporting both to the authorities in Kiev and the rebels who control the crash site and other areas in the Donetsk region, will now need to pick through the debris spread across the Ukrainian steppe.

As Ukraine accused the rebels of hiding evidence relating to the loss of the airliner, a separatist leader said items thought to be the stricken jet's "black boxes" were now in rebel hands.

OSCE observers visited part of the crash site for a third day on Sunday (July 20). Just before their arrival, emergency workers found parts of three more bodies and put them in black body bags on the side of a road.

At the site where the co

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