Eighty children were among the victims killed when a passenger jet was shot out of the sky at 32,000ft by a surface-to-air missile yesterday. Two Indonesians aged just three and five who were flying with their parents, as well as three Australian children headed home with their grandfather, numbered among the 298 dead after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over rebel-held Ukraine yesterday. Also on board the doomed flight were around 100 Aids experts on their way to an international conference, a Catholic nun from Australia and a British university student. The nationalities of more victims were confirmed today - with the toll now including: 173 Dutch 44 Malaysians 27 Australians 12 Indonesians 9 Britons. Twenty passengers are yet to be verified. The Boeing 777 aircraft was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile over territory near Donetsk held by pro-Russian rebels who the Ukrainian government says are backed by the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin has on the other hand blamed Ukraine for the attack. The plane was shot down in an act of terrorism, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board, including three Australian children, aged between eight and 12, who were travelling with their grandfather.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:22:38 +0000
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