The Final Indignity - MH17

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PowerPoint Show by Andrew

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As if the heartache couldn’t get any worse, families of MH17 victims were today greeted with the most undignified scene imaginable – their loved ones in black body bags being lined up on the side of a road and thrown into the back of rubbish trucks.

Almost 200 victims were piled high in the sweltering heat on eastern Ukraine before being carted off to a refrigerated train after their passenger jet was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

For three days the 298 victims of the attack were left where they fell, in a field near the village of Grabovo in eastern Ukraine which is controlled by pro-Russian rebels, widely suspected of shooting the plane out of the sky on Thursday afternoon.

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The bagged victims were gathered and piled onto vehicles before being taken to a train station and placed in refrigerator cars.

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Workers are pictured yesterday at the crash site plucking and bagging up remains of victims.

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Rescue workers are pictured above at the MH17 crash site in Grabovo, eastern Ukraine, moving bodies onto trucks.

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Black bags are still being taken from the crash site by rescue workers.

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Two workers prepare a rubbish truck for the corpses.

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The bodies are dumped in rubbish trucks by rescue workers. Despite criticism, militiamen insist they are doing everything they can for the dead.

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Some of the emergency services laid flowers on the bagged-up bodies, as outrage at their treatment intensified across the world.

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The international community has expressed outrage over the undignified scene - with swarms of flies buzzing around the train.

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Emergency workers were pictured today at the crash site still struggling to gather together the last bodies of victims.

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Separatists armed with machine guns were seen outside the train today, to which international observers have been given access.

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Rebels armed with AK-47s were surrounding the train carriages today, which before had been openly accessible to members of the public.

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A rebel can be seen holding his nose as the door to a carriage containing the heaped bodies is opened.

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An inspector from the OSCE international body covers her mouth and nose as she stands in front of the morgue train loaded high with corpses.

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Investigators wearing face masks were seen walking through the refrigerated train cars containing the massed corpses.

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A Dutch forensics expert, center in blue and orange, was seen flanked by armed men coming back from the train carriages.

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Experts from the Netherlands and the OSCE are pictured above reporting on the condition of the bodies.

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Locals in Ukraine were yesterday seen walking up and down the train containing the bodies of the MH17 victims.

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Despite the presence of armed guards, Ukrainian citizens and their families seemed able to walk right up to the carriages.

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko today left flowers outside the Dutch embassy in Kiev.

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Mr Poroshenko (background) and Dutch ambassador Kees Klompenhouwer (foreground) were seen today kneeling in front of the tributes.

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