THE HAGUE: A bereaved Dutch father has written a savagely ironic open letter to whoever shot down Flight MH17, "thanking" them for killing his 17-year-old daughter Elsemiek, "my dear and only child".
"Thank you very much Mr (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, separatist leaders or the Ukrainian government, for murdering my dear and only child," Hans de Borst said in the letter published by Dutch media on Monday.
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