Mother of MH17 plane crash victim sues Ukraine in European court - paper


Participants carry a coffin during a farewell ceremony as some of the remains of the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are loaded on to a transport plane before they head to the Netherlands, at Kharkiv airport November 28, 2014. REUTERS/Stanislav Belousov

BERLIN (Reuters) - The mother of a German woman killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine in July is suing the Ukrainian authorities at the European Court of Human Rights for failing to close their airspace, a German paper reported.

The mother of the victim named as "Olga L." was seeking $1 million in compensation from Kiev for manslaughter by negligence and had begun proceedings in the past week, Bild am Sonntag newspaper said on Sunday.

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