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| MH17 plane crash: Train with bodies leaves Ukraine station | MH17 plane crash: Train with bodies leaves Ukraine station |
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| A Ukrainian train carrying bodies from the Malaysia Airlines plane crash has left the station of the town of Torez. | A Ukrainian train carrying bodies from the Malaysia Airlines plane crash has left the station of the town of Torez. |
| Officials say the train will go to Kharkiv, but there is no confirmation. | Officials say the train will go to Kharkiv, but there is no confirmation. |
| Pro-Russian separatists, who are in control of the crash site, had placed the remains of the passengers of flight MH17 in refrigerated carriages. | Pro-Russian separatists, who are in control of the crash site, had placed the remains of the passengers of flight MH17 in refrigerated carriages. |
| Western countries say the plane was shot down on 17 July by the rebels, who have been involved in heavy fighting in the main rebel-held city of Donetsk. | |
| The train's departure comes after tough negotiations between international investigators and the separatists to allow the bodies to leave the rebel-held area. | |
| Ukrainian officials said the train was transporting 280 bodies. | |
| Ukraine's deputy prime minister earlier announced the remains would be taken to the eastern city of Kharkiv, before being flown to the Netherlands. | |
| All 298 people on board flight MH17 died when it crashed over the rebel-held area between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the region of Donetsk. |