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From the Daily Mail:

Malaysian Airlines MH17 passenger plane carrying 295 people including between five and ten Britons ‘shot down with ground-to-air missile’ at 33,000ft over Ukraine near to Russian border

Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 shot down over territory held by Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine

Body parts and wreckage spread over nine-mile area, suggesting plane broke up mid-air

Whitehall sources say up to ten Britons feared dead, 23 Americans also thought to be on board

US President Barack Obama calls the crash a ‘terrible tragedy’, and offers condolences to passengers’ families

Ukrainian interior ministry says plane was shot down by a BUK surface-to-air missile

President Petro Poroshenko issued robust denial that his forces were involved

Pro-Russian rebels also denied shooting down the plane and blamed Ukrainian air force

Journalists in region say they saw a Buk-type launcher in pro-Russian rebel hands yesterday


508 posted on 07/17/2014 12:49:36 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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Stunning pictures from the crash site here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2696161/BREAKING-NEWS-Malaysian-passenger-plane-carrying-295-people-crashes-Ukraine-near-Russian-border.html


517 posted on 07/17/2014 12:59:39 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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