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New investigation launched at MH17 crash site in Ukraine

Xinhua, June 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

A team of international experts arrived in eastern Ukraine to start a fresh round of investigations at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, the press office of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said in a statement Tuesday.

"Today, the new mission begins in eastern Ukraine in the framework of the investigation into the MH17 crash," Vasyl Vovk, head of the main Investigative Department at the SBU, was quoted as saying by the press office.

The investigation team involving representatives of the Dutch police and officers from the SBU will spend two weeks at the crash site for searching "evidence, which would support or disprove the various versions about the circumstances of the crash," Vovk said.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will provide assistance to the experts during their work.

On May 22, international experts concluded their search and recovery operation at the site in eastern Ukraine, where the Boeing 777-200, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, went down on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people onboard. Endi