OSCE: Over 100 international experts work at crash site of Malaysian airliner

Published Aug. 4, 2014 at 12:06 pm

Deputy Chief Monitor of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug (2nd L), reacts as fellow OSCE members (R) look on during a meeting with separatists in Donetsk.

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Over a hundred representatives of the international mission and OSCE observers began work at the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing-777-200 in Donetsk region on Monday, reads a statement posted on the OSCE page on Twitter on Monday, Aug. 4.

“Eight SMM monitors have arrived at MH17 site with over 100 experts and detector dogs,” reads the statement.

“Long day ahead intensive work focused on recovery victim remains,” the statement says.

The report published on the Web site of the Dutch government on
Sunday, Aug. 3 said that a plane with the remains of the crash victims that were
discovered in the last few days would leave for the Netherlands on
Monday at about 4 p.m. local time.