Rescuers found 251 bodies and 66 body fragments at the Boeing crash site (PHOTO 18+)
Donetsk, July 21 (Navigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – As of 7:00 on Monday, July 21, 2014, the bodies of 251 people killed in the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crash in the Donetsk region have been found.
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According to the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations, rescuers also discovered 66 fragments of bodies that were loaded into refrigerated cars at the Torez railway station.
“The surveyed search area is about 120 square meters,” the department noted.
In total, 810 people were involved in search and rescue work in the Boeing disaster area and special work in Kyiv, including 335 people and 35 pieces of equipment from the State Emergency Situations Service.
As Navigator reported, all 777 passengers died as a result of the Boeing 298 crash. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said that the passenger plane was probably shot down from a Buk anti-aircraft missile system. Representatives of the DPR claim that the Boeing was shot down by a Ukrainian military aircraft.
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