Malaysia Airlines MH17: International investigators unable to secure access to crash site of downed jet.
nternational investigators have been unable to secure an access corridor to the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines plane that was shot down in eastern Ukraine.
flight MH17 which was shot down by a ground-to-air missile, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
Pro-Russian separatists are being blamed for the attack, which left bodies and smouldering wreckage scattered across fields.
A team of 17 investigators from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe were allowed to examine the wreckage for about 75 minutes, before being forced out by gunmen.
"They did not have the freedom of movement that they need to do their job," OSCE chairman Thomas Greminger told Reuters by telephone.
"The crash site is not sealed off. In the current circumstances, they were not able to help securing this corridor that would allow access for those that would want to investigate."
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