20 Bodies of Victims of MH17 Plane Disaster Arrive Malaysia

20 bodies out of the 43 Malaysian citizens who were involved in the MH17 Malaysian Airline plane disaster have arrived Malaysia. The country is observing a day of mourning on Friday, August 22, as bodies of Malaysian victims of the MH17 incident arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. The coffins were draped in the national flag and carried by soldiers and draped in the national flag. The bodies and ashes of 20 victims from the Malaysia Airlines jet that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July were given full military honours and a day of national mourning was declared, the first in the country's history.

 

Many people in offices in the nation of 30 million observed a minute's silence as the hearses were driven from the tarmac of Kuala Lumpur International Airport to private funerals. Some public train in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, stopped operating.

All 298 people onboard died when the jet was shot down over an area of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. The victims included 43 Malaysians and 195 Dutch nationals. An international investigation is ongoing, but no one has been arrested.