Ben Mathis-Lilley has a
Slate article about the latest on the
Malaysian Airlines disaster:
Reports have indicated that 282 bodies were aboard the refrigerated train carrying the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims from the crash site into territory controlled by the Ukrainian government. (There were 298 people thought to have died in the crash.) But Dutch official Jan Tuinder (photo), who is in charge of preparing the bodies for transport from the city of Kharkiv to the Netherlands, now says that only two hundred bodies arrived in Kharkiv. From The Washington Post:
The number of bodies that arrived in the train’s refrigerated rail cars was significantly lower than the 282 bodies, plus 87 body parts believed to belong to the remaining sixteen victims, that Ukrainian officials have said were recovered. The train, which left the rebel-held mining town of Torez took more than seventeen hours to travel a route that normally takes five hours or less.
Ukrainian officials previously accused rebels of moving thirty-eight bodies from the crash site to the city of Donetsk, presumably in an effort to hide evidence that the plane was shot down.
Rico says this ain't over yet. (And the Dutch are
pissed...)
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