MH17: Investigators to establish spot from where missile was fired


The reconstructed wreckage of the MH17 airplane is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands, October 13, 2015. - REUTERS

THE HAGUE: Dutch criminal investigators will “within months” establish the spot from where the missile that downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was fired, media reports said Friday.  

“The Public Prosecutor’s office will within a few months have finished its criminal probe into what type of BUK rocket was used and is expected to prove exactly where it was fired from,” the public newscaster NOS said.  

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