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Australia to Send 100 More Officers to MH17 Crash Site


Australia is close to finalilzing a plan to send 100 additional police and some defense force personnel to Europe to join a planned Dutch-led international security force to secure the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash site, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday.

Armed pro-Russian separatists control the area and have hampered investigators’ attempts to access the site.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers, some of whom will be armed, will join a contingent of 90 AFP officers already in London waiting for a deal with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to be approved by the country’s parliament.

Abbott stressed that the team, which …read more

Source: Voice of America

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