MH17: Fragments of suspected Russian missile system found at crash site


Local workers transport a piece of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 wreckage at the site of the plane crash near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine in this November 20, 2014 file photo. - Reuters

AMSTERDAM: Dutch prosecutors from a joint international criminal investigation into the downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine say some of the debris recovered from the site may belong to a Russian-made missile system. 

International and Dutch investigators are probing “several parts, possibly originating from a BUK surface-air-missile system,” said a joint statement from prosecutors and the Dutch Safety Board (OVV).  

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