Published: Monday August 4, 2014 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Monday August 4, 2014 MYT 7:18:54 AM
Updated: Monday August 4, 2014 MYT 7:18:54 AM
Malaysian probe team to enter MH17 crash site today
Ready to go: Zahid with Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar and police officers who will be on duty at Kharkiv in Ukraine.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Members of the Malaysian special investigation team are expected to enter the MH17 crash site in Donetsk today to start their probe.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said, for as long as the situation was conducive, they would enter with their counterparts from the Netherlands and Australia.
“A combined task force in Kharkiv has decided that a Malaysian team of 21 people will be deployed to the forward operations base in Soledar, about a four-hour journey from Kharkiv, at 7pm (Malaysian time),” he said in a statement yesterday.
The crash site is about an hour’s drive from the forward operations base and they would begin their journey there today.
Ahmad Zahid said Malaysia would extend its full cooperation to the international security forces involved.
Flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 as it was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 283 passengers and 15 crew members. — Bernama
