The Ukraine authorities say a passenger plane has been shot down in the east of the country,
in an area where pro-Russian rebels have been fighting government forces.
They say all 295people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur
were killed. Most of the passengers were Dutch nationals. Some of their relatives are waiting
at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Ashing-faced families gathered in silence at Schiphol Airport, inside Departure 3,
the same place from which they’d waved their relatives off on holiday just a few hours earlier.
The senior vice-president of Malaysia Airlines said a flight tonight will take those relatives
to the Ukrainian capital Kiev. From there, they’ll be transported to crash sites.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine bore responsibility for the downing
of the Malaysian airliner. The Vice-president Joe Biden said he believes the plane was shot down,
it wasn’t an accident, and that it was blown out of the sky, although he conceded that he didn’t
have all the details to make that assertion. The US officials believe that a surface-to-air missile
brought down the Malaysia Airlines jet, but they are very careful to be cautious about who
might be responsible.
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for
international investigators to be given safe and unrestricted access to the site where
the downed Malaysian airliner crashed in east Ukraine.
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