The Victims Of Malaysian Flight MH17

The Tragic Victims Of Flight MH17: EIGHTY Children Among The 298 Who Perished On Doomed Plane - Including A Brilliant Young British Mathematician, Catholic Nun, UN Worker And leading Aids Doctor -- Daily Mail

* Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over territory held by Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine
* Body parts and wreckage from flight, headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, spread over nine-mile area
* Nine Britons and 173 Dutch have been confirmed dead, along with 27 Australians and 44 Malaysians
* Three Australian children - Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin, aged between eight and 12 - were among those killed
* An entire Indonesian family - including a five-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, also died in the attack
* Glenn Thomas, 49, a World Health Organisation press officer originally from Blackpool, was killed too
* Newcastle United fans John Alder and Liam Sweeney, were named, along with Leeds University student Richard Mayne
* As many as 100 of the victims are thought to have been Aids experts on their way to a conference in Melbourne

Eighty children were among the victims killed when a passenger jet was shot out of the sky at 32,000ft by a surface-to-air missile yesterday.

Two Indonesians aged just three and five who were flying with their parents, as well as three Australian children headed home with their grandfather, numbered among the 298 dead after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over rebel-held Ukraine yesterday.

Also on board the doomed flight were around 100 Aids experts on their way to an international conference, a Catholic nun from Australia and a British university student.

The nationalities of more victims were confirmed today - with the toll now including 173 Dutch, 44 Malaysians, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians and nine Britons. Twenty passengers are yet to be verified.

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More News On The Victims Of Malaysian Flight MH17

MH17 victims: Researchers to politicians to nun -- Stuff.co.nz
Names of passengers and crew on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 -- News.com.au
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: Victims revealed as world looks for answers -- New York Daily News
MH17 crash: Passengers on Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine -- BBC
MH17 crash in Ukraine: Nine Britons on board - airline -- BBC
MH17: Shift swap cost steward life, saved wife earlier -- BBC
MH17 crash: 'Total shock' at Aids researcher deaths -- BBC
MH17 victims include former president of International Aids Society -- The Guardian

My Comment: Our prayers are with the families and loved ones.