There were 189 Dutch passengers among the 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that crashed in Ukraine Thursday, the airline said in its latest update Friday evening.
Among the people of other nationalities on board were 44 Malaysians (including 15 crew members), 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, nine British, four Belgians, four Germans, three Filipinos, one Canadian, and one New Zealander.
The nationalities of four other passengers are yet to be verified, the airline said.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, a Boeing 777, crashed in the conflict-hit Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur Thursday afternoon, killing all 298 people on board.
