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Malaysia plane 'shot down' over Ukraine | News.com.au
A MALAYSIAN airliner carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine, amid reports it was shot down.
MALAYSIA Airlines said it had "lost contact" with flight MH17, which Ukrainian officials said came down near the town of Shaktarsk, in the Donetsk region.
Regional officials said the number of dead was "not yet known," but Russian news agency Itar-Tass cited an unnamed source at Ukraine's aviation authority as saying there were no survivors.An AFP reporter at the scene said dozens of severely mutilated corpses could be seen strewn in the wreckage.Debris was spread out for kilometres and the tail of a passenger jet lay in a corn field with the Malaysian Airlines insignia on it, while insurgent fighters and several fire trucks were seen nearby the crash site.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the jet may have been shot down."We do not exclude that the plane was shot down and confirm that the Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets in the sky," Poroshenko said in a statement.However, pro-Russian rebels fighting central Kiev authorities claimed the plane had been shot down by a Ukrainian jet.Still reeling from the disappearance of flight MH370 on March 8 with 239 on board, Malaysia Airlines announced on Twitter the loss of the Boeing 777, which was expected in the Malaysian capital at around 6am (8am AEST) on Friday.Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on his Twitter feed he was "shocked by reports that an MH plane crashed"."We are launching an immediate investigation."Ukraine's Poroshenko expressed his "deepest and sincerest sympathies for the families and loved ones of those killed" and vowed that "those behind this tragedy will be brought to justice".The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama had discussed the shocking new development in crisis-torn Ukraine where fighting between pro-Russian separatists and the Western-backed government has claimed over 600 lives.
Malaysia plane 'shot down' over Ukraine | News.com.au
A MALAYSIAN airliner carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine, amid reports it was shot down.
MALAYSIA Airlines said it had "lost contact" with flight MH17, which Ukrainian officials said came down near the town of Shaktarsk, in the Donetsk region.
Regional officials said the number of dead was "not yet known," but Russian news agency Itar-Tass cited an unnamed source at Ukraine's aviation authority as saying there were no survivors.An AFP reporter at the scene said dozens of severely mutilated corpses could be seen strewn in the wreckage.Debris was spread out for kilometres and the tail of a passenger jet lay in a corn field with the Malaysian Airlines insignia on it, while insurgent fighters and several fire trucks were seen nearby the crash site.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the jet may have been shot down."We do not exclude that the plane was shot down and confirm that the Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets in the sky," Poroshenko said in a statement.However, pro-Russian rebels fighting central Kiev authorities claimed the plane had been shot down by a Ukrainian jet.Still reeling from the disappearance of flight MH370 on March 8 with 239 on board, Malaysia Airlines announced on Twitter the loss of the Boeing 777, which was expected in the Malaysian capital at around 6am (8am AEST) on Friday.Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on his Twitter feed he was "shocked by reports that an MH plane crashed"."We are launching an immediate investigation."Ukraine's Poroshenko expressed his "deepest and sincerest sympathies for the families and loved ones of those killed" and vowed that "those behind this tragedy will be brought to justice".The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama had discussed the shocking new development in crisis-torn Ukraine where fighting between pro-Russian separatists and the Western-backed government has claimed over 600 lives.
