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Two Australian experts started working on the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crash scene in the Donetsk region on July 24, said Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for the OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine.

He told the audience at the crisis media center from the crash scene
on Skype their team had been joined by two experts from Australia. He
also presumed there were three experts from Malaysia there.

The experts are taking pictures of the debris and the crash scene, Bociurkiw said.

He gave a negative answer to the question whether he could see any Ukrainian experts around.

The rebels are not hindering the work of observers and experts, the spokesman said.

He added that the OSCE mission operating on the crash scene consisted of twelve observers.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said 240 international experts were
staying in Ukraine as of  July 23, to investigate the July 17
crash of the Malaysian Boeing 777 in the east of the country. The
experts came from the Netherlands, Malaysia, Australia, Germany,
Indonesia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, France,
Italy, the European Union and the United Arab Emirates. The commission
also included representatives of the ICAO and the Interpol.