You're reading: Agence France-Presse: Dutch families plant first trees at MH17 memorial park

Murder In The Sky: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17

Agence France-Presse: Dutch families plant first trees at MH17 memorial park

Published March 19, 2017 at 9:17 am

Local villagers place pictures of the passengers of MH17 flight at a makeshift memorial in Petropavlivka village, Donetsk region, on the second anniversary of the tragedy on July 17, 2016. Dozens of local villagers gathered on July 17 in separatist eastern Ukraine at the crash site of the MH17 flight two years after the jet was hit by a missile killing 298 people.

Photo by AFP

VIJFHUIZEN – Relatives of those killed when flight MH17 was downed over Ukraine in mid-2014, on Saturday (Mar 18) planted the first trees in a Dutch memorial park not far from where the ill-fated plane departed.

“Today is a very important day for all the next of kin. We are planting the first trees … to create a monument for MH17,” Evert van Zijtveld, chairman of the MH17 victims’ foundation said.