Monday, September 30, 2024
59.0°F
FILE - In this Sunday, July 20, 2014 file photo Ukrainian Emergency workers carry a victim's body in a body bag as pro-Russian fighters stand guard at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people. United by grief across oceans and continents, families who lost loved ones when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 hope that a trial starting next week will finally deliver them something that has remained elusive ever since: The truth. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, file)

Stories this photo appears in:

Dutch trial opens for 4 suspects in downing of flight MH17
March 9, 2020 6:53 a.m.

Dutch trial opens for 4 suspects in downing of flight MH17

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — As the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with multiple counts of murder for their alleged involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 got underway Monday, a Dutch prosecutor solemnly read out the names of all 298 people killed in the attack.