Bodies strewn in Ukraine village

First came the loud explosion that made buildings rattle: then it started raining bodies One of the corpses fell through the rickety roof of Irina Tipunova’s house in this sleepy village, just after Malaysia Airlines’ Flight MH17 exploded high over eastern Ukraine. ‘There was a howling noise and everything started to rattle. Then objects started falling out of the sky,’ the 65-year-old pensioner said in front of her grey-brick home. ‘And then I heard a roar and she landed in the kitchen, the roof was broken,’ Tipunova said, showing the gaping hole made by the body when it came through the ceiling of the kitchen in an extension to the house. The dead woman’s naked body was still lying inside the house, next to a bed. About 100 metres (330 feet) from Tipunova’s home, dozens more dead bodies lay in the wheat fields where the airliner came down on Thursday, killing all 298 people on board. Another local resident in her 20s who refused to give her name said she ran outside after hearing the plane explode. ‘I opened the door and I saw people falling. One fell in my vegetable patch,’ she said. It was not only bodies that fell from the sky. Chunks of metal, pieces of luggage and other debris came crashing down to the ground in this agricultural area about 40 km (25 miles) from the border with Russia. The front of the plane fell in a field of sunflowers about one km (1000 yards) from Tipunova’s home. Debris, bodies and body parts were scattered for miles around. Rescue workers say they have found most of the corpses, some of them largely intact, others mangled. Some have been piled together but others lie where they fell, the place identified by sticks placed in the ground with white cloth attached, according to Reuters.