MH17 coverage a haunting affair

Tough reality: Kamarul (left) and Lee travelled to Ukraine in 2014 to cover the downing of flight MH17 in this filepic.

PETALING JAYA: Ten years on, memories of the ground coverage of the debris field from the destroyed MH17 are still vivid in the minds of Patrick Lee and Kamarul Ariffin from The Star.

Lee, then a journalist with The Star, recounted his experience being the first Malaysians alongside photographer Kamarul to cover flight MH17, an aircraft of Malaysia Airlines that was shot down over conflict-hit eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.