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Dutch specialists working with personal belongings of MH17 dead passengers in Kharkiv

Last Monday rescuers and international experts resumed the search for bodies of the victims and personal belongings of the passengers on the jet crash site in the Donetsk region

KIEV, October 15. /TASS/. The cargo with personal belongings of dead passengers from the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has been delivered to Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, for an examination, the Kharkiv Region administration’s press service said on Wednesday.

“The cargo with personal belongings of the dead passengers and their luggage arrived in the Kharkiv region. Dutch specialists, who have arrived in Kharkiv, are working with them in the area of the Malyshev Plant,” the press service said.

Last Monday rescuers and international experts resumed the search for bodies of the victims and personal belongings of the passengers on the jet crash site in the Donetsk region.

The Boeing 777-200 of the Malaysia Airlines en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17 in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk Region, some 60 km (over 37 miles) from the Russian border, in the zone of combat operations between the Donetsk self-defence forces and the Ukrainian army. All the 283 passengers and 15 crew onboard the aircraft died.

Malaysian Airlines said 193 of those onboard the plane were Dutch, 43 were Malaysian, including 15 crew, and 27 were Australian.