MH17 flight 127 disaster victims identified – Volkskrant

MH17 flight 127 disaster victims identified – Volkskrant

By: Editorial – 15/08/14, 16:10

© Belga. Debris MH17.

The forensic team in Hilversum has identified 62 victims of the accident flight MH17 this week. Of these 62 victims, 47 are Dutch nationals and 15 other nationalities. Including the previous identifications are now a total of 127 victims of the disaster flight MH17 identified. That the Ministry of Security and Justice that.

First is about the families of the victims informed. In consultation with relatives, if desired, also the mayor of the residence of the victim informed. At the request of the embassies of the countries concerned, is not announced which specific nationality of the non-Dutch victims.

The recovered remains were brought to the Corporal of Oudheusden barracks in Hilversum. As experts try to identify the bodies. They look include fingerprints, dental records and DNA material.

In Hilversum employs over two hundred specialists in Hilversum, including experts from around the world, to the identification of the 298 passengers who perished when flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine. It can take months for all the victims have been identified.

Observers
Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, in recent weeks the search for human remains and personal items has resulted in The MH17-disaster area, has two observers in Ukraine. One is in Kharkiv, in the east of the country and in the capital Kiev, it was announced today.

The Amsterdam police Aalbersberg himself back in the Netherlands. His observer in Kiev, a police officer, takes care mainly about the contacts with the Ukrainian government. The observer in Kharkov, from Defence should ensure that search teams again started quickly can it be decided that the search will continue. He must also make sure that stuff still be found in the disaster area, come to the Netherlands.

Since the departure of the majority of the Dutch from Ukraine last week, there are no supplies being transferred by the locals to the team that has remained in Kharkov.

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