Nearly half of MH17's wreckage still in Ukraine: Rebel

June 24, 2015 20:35

A top pro-Russian rebel said Wednesday that nearly half the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over Ukraine last year remains strewn across fields controlled by the separatists.

Insurgency leader Andrei Purgin said about 40 per cent of the plane's charred parts were left behind by international investigators and recovery teams.

Kiev and its Western allies accuse the militants of accidentally shooting down the Boeing 777 liner after mistaking it for a Ukrainian jet.

All 298 passengers and crew who boarded the Kuala Lumpur-bound flight MH17 in Amsterdam were killed.

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