Rebels seize MH17 plane crash black boxes and bodies, human remains shipped on train to unknown site
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Flowers left on debris of flight MH17 (Reuters)
On Sunday morning, reporters at the site of the crashed Malaysia Airlines flight 17 in Eastern Ukraine say armed pro-Russia militants have forced emergency workers to hand over all bodies and body parts recovered so far. The human remains were then loaded onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city.
Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Volodymyr Groysman said 192 bodies and eight body parts were loaded onto the railway cars.
The rebels say they also have the plane’s “black box” data recorders, and will hand them over to the International Civil Aviation Organization. Read the rest