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More human remains found at MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine

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ANI Melbourne
Last Updated : Feb 03 2015 | 11:25 AM IST

A Dutch search team has reportedly recovered more body parts at the MH17 crash site in war-torn eastern Ukraine, where the flight went down last year killing all 298 people onboard.

Dutch defence ministry spokeswoman Marloes Visser said on Monday that "a small amount of human remains of the victims" were recovered from the crash site along with personal belongings and wreckage found by local residents, reported News.com.au.

She added that the remains will be flown back to the Netherlands on Saturday.

The task of the recovery team has been complicated by fierce clashes in the nearby key Ukrainian town of Debaltseve, in the eastern part of the country.

Kiev and the West have claimed that the Malaysian Airlines flight was shot down by separatists using a surface-to-air missile supplied by Russia. Moscow however, has denied the charges.

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