OSCE experts start working at Malaysian Boeing crash site

World July 21, 2014, 15:36

The investigation of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 passenger airliner is complicated due to the lack of accord between warring parties to the conflict in southeast Ukraine

DONETSK, July 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) came to the crash site of a Malaysian Boeing-777 passenger airliner near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk and to the railway station Torez where remains of air crash victims had earlier been delivered, OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine said on Monday. Fourteen OSCE observers are working at the air crash site.

According to latest reports, 272 bodies of victims were found dead at the airplane’s crash site, parliament-appointed Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said. As many as 251 bodies and 66 fragments of casualties were earlier reported to be brought to railway station Torez and to be loaded in refrigerated railroad cars.

The investigation of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 passenger airliner is complicated due to the lack of accord between warring parties to the conflict in southeast Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry stated on Monday.

“Investigation of the Malaysian airliner’s crash in Ukrainian air space continues,” the diplomatic agency said, noting that “Observers of OSCE monitoring mission and personnel of specific Ukrainian services were working at the air crash site on July 20.”

“A large-scale investigation of the air crash is hampered by the lack of accord which warring parties to Ukrainian domestic conflict should reach over guarantees for security to foreign specialists who are still staying in Kiev and Kharkiv,” the Russian Foreign Ministry noted.

 

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