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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. Pro-Russian rebels controlling the crash site have agreed for the remains to be taken to the city of Kharkiv to be later flown to the Netherlands.
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 flight MH17 was shot down on 17 July by the rebels, killing all 298 people on board.
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. Meanwhile the rebels 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. Malaysian PM Najib Razak announced he had received assurances from Alexander Borodai, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, that the remains would be moved by train to Kharkiv and handed over to international investigators.
Ukrainian officials said the train was transporting 280 bodies. He added that two black box flight recorders recovered from the crash site would be given to a Malaysian team, and that independent international experts would "be guaranteed safe access" to the site to begin their probe.
Ukraine's deputy prime minister earlier announced the remains would be taken to the eastern city of Kharkiv, before being flown to the Netherlands. The train's departure comes after tough negotiations between Western nations and the separatists to allow the bodies to leave the rebel-held area.
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.