Pro-Russian rebels ‘stole bodies from MH17 crash site’
Ukraine’s government has accused pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine of trying to destroy evidence at the site where a Malaysian airliner crashed and of removing 38 bodies from the scene. Air accident investigators from the UK are set to arrive in Ukraine to assist the investigation into the attack on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 amid growing international condemnation of the disaster.
Downing Street said it was “increasingly likely that MH-17 was shot down by a separatist missile”.
Two football fans, a student and a World Health Organisation worker were among the ten Britons killed when the Malaysia Airline passenger plane was apparently shot down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.
A pro-Russian separatist leader has claimed the flight recorders belonging to the downed Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine have not been found. “The black boxes have not been found and we are not touching the site,” said Aleksander Borodai, prime minister of the self-styled Donetsk People’s Republic. He also told a news conference that there had been no talk of creating a security zone at the site.