MH17: Victims' Bodies Flown To The Netherlands

The first victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are set to arrive back in the Netherlands from the crash site in eastern Ukraine.

Two military aircraft will fly some of the bodies to Eindhoven where they will be met by relatives, the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and members of the Dutch royal family.

A national day of mourning for the 298 people on board the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, the majority of whom were Dutch, has been declared for today.

This will include a silent march in Amsterdam for the victims this evening.

A traveller looks at flowers outside Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport

A minute's silence will be held before a motorcade takes the bodies to the Korporaal van Oudheusden military barracks, where the long process of identifying the remains will begin.

Mr Rutte has warned the identification process could take weeks or even months.

A British team of police officers, led by the Metropolitan Police, will help identify the victims.

The Boeing 777-200 took off from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, bound for Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, last Thursday.

The bodies of the victims were released by the pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine on Tuesday, who said the remains of 282 people were on board a refrigerated train.

A Malaysian air crash investigator inspects the crash site of MH17

However, a member of the Dutch forensics team said there were only 200 bodies, in addition to some body parts.

Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) at the crash scene confirmed there were still some unrecovered human remains and "smaller body parts".

Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said Australian families affected will be offered the chance to go to the Netherlands to travel home with the bodies of their loved ones.

As well as the transfer of some of the bodies, the jet's two black boxes have been handed over by the separatists.

The flight data recorders will be examined by British experts from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch.

Russia has been accused of arming the pro-Russian rebels who are suspected of shooting down the plane.

A train carrying the bodies of some of the victims of flight MH17

As a result, the EU has agreed to impose sanctions on more Russian officials.

A senior US intelligence official confirmed that evidence suggests the Russian government was not directly involved, but it "created the conditions" for the plane to be shot down by mistake, most likely by the rebels.

The official added that Moscow is still supplying separatists with tanks and rocket launchers in the aftermath of the crash.

President Barack Obama visited the Dutch embassy in Washington on Tuesday and wrote in a condolence book: "We will not rest until we are certain that justice is done."

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