Dignitaries in the Netherlands gathered for another solemn moment of silence at Eindhoven airfield on Thursday as the remains of 51 more Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 victims were returned to Dutch soil.
Two military aircraft carried the victims' bodies from Ukraine to the Netherlands on the second day of repatriations. All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — most of them Dutch citizens — were killed when the plane was shot down on July 17. U.S. officials say the Boeing 777 was probably shot down by a missile, most likely by accident.
Meanwhile, Australian and Dutch diplomats joined to promote a plan for a UN team to secure the crash scene which has been controlled by pro-Russian rebels.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who says he fears some remains will never be recovered unless security is tightened, has proposed a multinational force mounted by countries such as Australia, the Netherlands and Malaysia that lost citizens in the disaster.
To that end, Abbott said Thursday he had dispatched 50 police officers to London to be ready to join any organization which may result.
Dozens of containers holding the bodies and remains of victims of the Malaysia jet crash were loaded onto a Dutch military carrier in the second day of the airlift operation. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was travelling with her Dutch counterpart Frans Timmermans to Kyiv to seek an agreement with the Ukraine government to allow international police to secure the wreckage, Abbott said.
Details including which countries would contribute and whether officers would be armed and protected by international troops were yet to be agreed, Abbott said.
On Monday, the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution proposed by Australia demanding that rebels cooperate with an independent investigation and allow all remaining bodies to be recovered.
The first bodies remains arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday and were met by Dutch King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima and hundreds of relatives.
Ukraine's government said 51 containers of bodies and body parts had been cleared for Thursday's flights. At least 200 bodies were aboard the train that brought them from the crash site to Kharkiv earlier this week.
Dutch police spokesman Ed Kraszewski told The Associated Press that a team of 25 forensic experts and dozens of support staff began working to identify remains Wednesday evening at a military barracks on the outskirts of the central city of Hilversum.
Staff will "examine the bodies, describe the bodies, take dental information, DNA and put all the information together in the computer and compare this information with the information they gathered from the families in the last days," Kraszewski said in a telephone interview. "Then we have to see if there is a match."
On Wednesday, the convoy of hearses passed through roads lined with thousands of members of the public, who applauded, threw flowers or stood in silence as the cars drove by.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the number of Dutch victims had risen by one to 194, taking into account a woman with joint German and Dutch nationalities who earlier had been listed as German.
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