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11/22/2024 09:18:21 am

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Total Number of Corpses Pro-Russia Separatists Turned Over Fewer by 80

Rebels turned over fewer than 80 corpses of passengers from MH17, according to the Dutch experts.

There were still scattered body parts on the unsecured crash site of MH17, which had been seen through international monitors.

According to Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), there were plenty of dead bodies remaining in the crash site that have to be picked up.

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Pro-Russian separatists declared that they had released 282 bodies last Monday, which were carried by a refrigerated train to Kharkiv, 300 kilometers northwest and a government-controlled area.

Jan Tuinder, head of the Dutch delegation claimed and assured the people that they only had 200 bodies and body parts that were on the morgue train.

Malaysian MH17 was downed by a surface-to-air missile last Thursday claiming 298 lives of people on board which include 193 Dutch.

According to OSCE, they had noticed "changes"five days after the incident.

They said the passenger jet's fuselage and tail fin were removed, while the plane's cone section was split into two.

Since rebels are guarding the site, western leaders are claiming that they have been tampering evidence but no definite proof yet.

For Bociurkiv, there is no need to jump to conclusions for the changes may have happened and may be an effect of the effort to recover the remains.

Fifteen monitors of the European security bodies had visited the sites yesterday and were accompanied by two Malaysian experts in civil aviation together with a senior official of Malaysian Airlines.

The group found out that there was no security in the perimeter. The crash site was guarded by rebels which make them the only one who can have access to the site.

The aluminum wings of the plane melted due to heat and intense impact.

Until now, there are still high hopes the remaining corpses will be turned over.

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