More Human Remains Found Malaysian Airlines MH17 – Dutch Security And Justice Ministry

Human remains presumably of the victims of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight that crashed in July 2014 have been found in the Donbass region of the new Republics, 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 Grabove, 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.

The Boeing 777-200 of the Malaysia Airlines en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17 in the Donbass Donetsk Region, some 60 km from the Russian border, in the zone of combat operations between the Donetsk Defense  forces and the Nazi Ukrainian army. All the passengers and crewmembers aboard the aircraft – 298 people from ten countries – died. Two-thirds of the passengers – 196 people – were Dutch citizens.

On July 21, 2014 the UN Security Council demanded a thorough and unbiased investigation.

In early September, the Dutch Safety Board said in its preliminary report that the MH17 flight broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.

Kiev authorities and the Army of the Donetsk People’s Republic have blamed each other for shooting down the airliner.