Rebels Load MH17 Victims' Bodies Onto Train Cars, Destination Unknown

TOREZ, Ukraine — Pro-Russian rebels on Sunday loaded an unknown number of decaying bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 onto three train cars in Torez, Ukraine, a mining town 10 miles south of where the jetliner is believed to have been shot down on Thursday.

Ukraine's emergency service workers said Saturday that they had removed 196 bodies of the 298 people who were on board the plane when it met its fiery end in war-torn eastern Ukraine on Thursday, the Associated Press reported

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Around midday, observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Special Monitoring Mission inspected the three refrigerated train cars that will carry the remains away. They did so under the watch of dozens of armed rebels Read more...

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