MH17: Heavy fighting near crash site, Dutch, Aussie police scrap visit


Flowers and a teddy bear are left by parents of an Australian victim on a piece of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, on July 26, 2014. - AFP

Dutch and Australian police who were planning to head to the crash site on Sunday have had to scrap their trip over security concerns, a OSCE spokesman said.

"There is fighting going on. We can't take the risk. The security situation on the way to the site and on the site itself is unacceptable for our unarmed observer mission," said Alexander Hug, deputy chief monitor of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's special mission in Ukraine.


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