Bodies of MH17 Malaysian victims may arrive home in 3 weeks
The bodies of Malaysians killed in the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash will not return in time for Hari Raya but might take up to three weeks, says a Malaysian investigator.
The delay was because some of the bodies were not intact, Lt-Col Mohd Sakri Hussain, principal assistant secretary of the National Security Council, was quoted as saying by Bernama.
Flight MH17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile on July 17 over the restive Ukrainian region of Donetsk. There were 298 people on board, with the Dutch losing 193 passengers. There were also 15 Malaysian crew members.
"It may take two or three weeks more before we can expect to receive the bodies," Sakri said at the KL International Airport (KLIA) after his return from Kiev today.
He was one of the 65 Malaysian investigators who returned from Ukraine. Malaysia had sent a team of 116 to Ukraine on July 18 to help probe into the crash of flight MH17. – July 26, 2014.
