The remains of some of the nearly 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over Ukraine were making their way to the Netherlands on Tuesday as a senior Ukrainian separatist leader handed over the plane’s black boxes to Malaysian experts.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told a news conference on Monday that a train carrying around 200 body bags was on its way to rebel-held Donetsk and then to Kharkiv, where it arrived around 0841 GMT on Tuesday. Kharkiv is in Ukrainian government hands.
The bodies were then to be taken back to the Netherlands to be identified.
The train left the …read more
Source: Voice of America
