Hundreds and relatives joined dignitaries at a memorial service in Amsterdam on Monday for the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, along with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, attended the ceremony, held in a conference center on the outskirts of the Dutch capital.
All 298 passengers and crew, about two thirds of them Dutch nationals, died when the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down on July 17 over conflict-ridden eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine and the West have blamed pro-Russian separatists for the tragedy, claiming they …read more
Source: Voice of America
