The 196 bodies earlier recovered by Ukrainian emergency workers from the crash site of Malaysian Airlines MH17 were taken by pro-Russian separatists to an unknown location.

Rebels were seen by the Associated Press putting bagged bodies onto trucks in eastern Ukraine last Saturday and drove away.

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"Where they took the bodies, we don't know," says Nataliya Bystro, Ukrainian spokeswoman.

Emergency worker Alexander Pilyushny said that they had no choice but to hand the dead bodies to the rebels for they armed and to save their lives, they gave what the rebels wanted.

"The rebels came, put the bodies onto trucks, and took them somewhere," Pilyushny said.

The dead bodies were loaded onto refrigerated trains as what Ukrainian officials said.

Ria Novosti, Russian news agency reported that there were five refrigerated trains carrying the corpses heading to Donetsk, a rebel stronghold camp.

Ukrainian officials were expecting these bodies to be delivered to Kharliv, a government-held city, but the assumption is not clear if it will happen.

There have been pro-Russian rebels who were guarding the impact site who had left, and with them are plastic gloves and a dozen of stretchers.

Ukraine government had already made a preliminary deal as to the control on who will remove the dead bodies from crash site together with the pro-Russian separatists.

Both the Ukraine and the separatists are accusing each other of firing missile at Malaysian Airlines Flight 17.

The said plane flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with some 33,000 feet above eastern Ukraine which is known to be the battlefields. Both sides deny the accusations.