A passenger plane traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 aboard.
Body parts were scattered for miles around the crash site, near towns held by Russian-backed separatists. An emergency services rescue worker said that at least 100 bodies had been found at the scene.
Ukrainian officials blamed separatists for the attack. Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister, wrote on Facebook that the plane was hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher over the country’s east. U.S. officials told NBC News that the plane was shot down by a …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
