MH17 downing suspects to be prosecuted in Dutch court


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 05 Jul 2017

A file photo showing the engine of MH17's Boeing 777 at the crash site in the village of Hrabove, some 80km east of Donetsk in Ukraine. - AFP

AMSTERDAM: Suspects in the 2014 downing of passenger flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine will be tried in Dutch court and under Dutch law, the Netherlands’ foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

The decision follows attempts, blocked by Russia in 2015, to set up an international court over the incident, which killed all 298 people aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight. Victims came from 17 countries, and included 196 Dutch.

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