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A special train carrying, according to preliminary information, 282 bodies and 87 body parts of another 16 passengers of the downed Malaysian airliner has arrived in Kharkiv from Donetsk region, Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman, who heads the commission investigating the Boeing 777 crash, has said.

“According to preliminary information, 282 bodies and 87 body
fragments presumably belonging to 16 people, have been delivered. We
will know for certain after the carriages are opened and experts start
their work,” Hroisman told journalists at a briefing in Kharkiv.

He said it was difficult to say how long the experts work would take
and how soon the bodies could be sent to the Netherlands for
examination.