MH17 crash: OSCE investigators reach east Ukraine site
Friday, 18 July 2014
International investigators have arrived at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, after rebels in eastern Ukraine allowed them access.
Some 30 monitors went to the village of Grabovo where the plane, carrying 298 people, came down Thursday, according to a news agency.
The two sides in Ukraine's civil conflict have accused each other of shooting the jet down with a missile.
The UN Security Council has held an emergency meeting, calling for a full and independent inquiry.
The Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. It fell between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the neighbouring region of Donetsk.
Latest figures released by Malaysia Airlines show the plane was carrying at least 189 Dutch nationals, 27 Australians, 44 Malaysians (including 15 crew), 12 Indonesians and nine Britons.