MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) – The first team of Malaysian special police officers, who have been working at the Boeing 777 crash site in eastern Ukraine, returned to Kuala Lumpur, New Straits Times reported Sunday.
According to the newspaper, a unit of 27 officers arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 06:30 a.m. local time (22:00 GMT). Royal Malaysian Police Management Department director Muhamad Fuzi Harun said that another 11 officers from the forensic unit are expected to return to the country later today.
On Wednesday, it was reported that the group of international experts operating at the site of Malaysian Boeing crash, was forced to stop their work due to the intense shelling in the area. Dutch authorities, leading the investigation into the causes of the tragedy, announced that the search for remains of the MH17 crash victims was halted due to the dangerous situation around the crash site and will resume once the security situation allows.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk Region on July 17. All 298 people on board, including 193 Dutch nationals, died in the crash. Kiev authorities and independence supporters have been trading blame for the downing of the plane, with independence supporters insisting they lacked the technology to shoot down a target flying at such height.
