Flight with MH17 Victims' Remains Leaves for Netherlands

A Dutch military transport plane carrying the first 16 coffins with the remains of some victims of the downed Malaysian airliner took off on Wednesday from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv for the Netherlands. The Dutch government declared a day of national mourning as the country prepared for the arrival of the first bodies. The crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Thursday killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch citizens. Honorary guards placed wooden coffins on...

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