International experts resume work at MH17 crash site

Published Aug. 4, 2014 at 3:50 pm

A woman walks with her bicycle near the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), some 80km east of Donetsk, on August 2, 2014. Shelling today forced international experts to abandon part of the crash scene of the downed Malaysia Airlines jet in east Ukraine as sniffer dogs working elsewhere on the vast site helped uncover the remains of more victims. 298 people were killed when the Malaysian airliner was shot down over Ukraine on July 17.

Photo by AFP

A group of international experts and observers from the OSCE special monitoring mission have continued to work at the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing 777 in Donetsk region.

“Intl experts, SMMU monitors have arrived in region of #MH17 crash
site but are remaining stationary pending further security assessments,”
OSCE said on Twitter on Monday morning.

Earlier on Monday, the state commission for the investigation of the
crash reported that an international group of 124 experts as of 1240
could not get to the Boeing 777 crash site due to the blocking of their
movements by militants who control the territory.