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Donetsk, Ukraine (CNN) -- Searchers for the Ukrainian government have found 196 bodies at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the State Emergency Service reported Sunday. The government agency said the search was being "complicated by armed separatists at the site who hinder the work of SES units." It said that 380 official staff are taking part in the search for the 298 passengers who were on board MH17, over an area stretching across 34 square kilometers (13 square miles) of eastern Ukraine.

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