Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Ukraine says all bodies to go to Kharkiv, then Netherlands

Monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and members of a forensic team inspect a refrigerator wagon containing the remains of victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at a railway station in the easte
Monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and members of a forensic team inspect a refrigerator wagon containing the remains of victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez on July 21, 2014. Bodies of the victims will be taken by train to the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, said Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Jan 22, 2016, 05:30 PM
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Jul 21, 2014, 10:51 PM

KIEV (REUTERS) - All the victims from the site where a Malaysian airliner crashed have been put into refrigerated wagons and will be taken by train to the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said on Monday.

"All the bodies have been loaded onto a special train in refrigerated wagons and we expect after 19:00 p.m. (0100 hrs Singapore time) the train will set off for ... Kharkiv," he told a news conference. "All the bodies will be taken to the Netherlands."

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