MH17: Fatima's parents overcome with emotion at crash site


Jerzy Dyczynsk (R) and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski from Australia react as they arrive on July 26, 2014 at the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 to look for their late daughter Fatima, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), in the Donetsk region. - AFP

GRABOVE (Ukraine): An Australian couple who lost their daughter in downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 visited the crash site on Saturday, the first relatives of victims to arrive at the scene, as Dutch and Australian forces prepared for possible deployment to secure the location in rebel-held east Ukraine. 

A truce has been called in the immediate area around the site by both the Kiev forces and pro-Russian separatists, but combat was raging just 60km away, with loud explosions heard at regular intervals in western and northern suburbs of rebel stronghold Donetsk.

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