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Investigators leave MH17 crash site in east Ukraine

Darpan News Desk IANS, 13 Nov, 2014 10:22 AM

Dutch investigators probing the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17's crash site Thursday left the Donetsk region in east Ukraine.

The investigators accompanied by Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) observers and Donetsk republican police detectives left for Kurakhovo, a settlement controlled by the Ukrainian government.

Dutch authorities had found new human remains at the crash site Wednesday.

The Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 enroute from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in Ukraine's Donetsk region July 17.

All 298 passengers and crew on board the ill-fated airliner were killed.

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