282 bodies found at MH17 crash site
The MH17 search area has been expanded to 120 kilometers square
DONETSK, Ukraine
282 bodies have been recovered from the debris of a Malaysia Airlines plane that came down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, according to Ukrainian emergency officials.
The flight MH17 - with 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board - was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur before crashing in Donetsk, the Ukrainian city under control of pro-Russian separatists.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said Monday that the bodies found were being stored on a refrigerated trailer at Torez train station near the search area, which has been expanded to 120 square kilometers.
Two trains of four refrigerated cargo cars were sent to a station in Torez city in order to transport the bodies to a specified area for examination, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
Thirty-two OSCE Special Monitoring Mission personnel arrived in Eastern Ukraine in the area controlled by pro-Russian separatists with the aim of investigating the plane crash.
Moscow-backed militants found the black box of the plane on Sunday and the self-proclaimed prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic said they would hand over the black box of the Boeing 777 to the International Civil Aviation Organization.
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