Train goes to Kharkiv with crash victims remains

Russia Ambassador to Malaysia Lyudmila Vorobyeva speaks during a press conference on a Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 tragedy at her embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Vorobyeva said that experts had confirmed that the black boxes of the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine "were not tampered with." (AP Photo) Russia Ambassador to Malaysia Lyudmila Vorobyeva speaks during a press conference on a Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 tragedy at her embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Vorobyeva said that experts had confirmed that the black boxes of the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine "were not tampered with." (AP Photo)

By Associated Press July 22, 2014 1 min read

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) – A train bearing the remains of people who died in the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday on their way to the Netherlands.

An AP reporter saw the train Tuesday as it pulled into a train station in Kharkiv, where Ukrainian authorities have set up their crash investigation center.

For many, it is the next stop on their journey home to the Netherlands. Of the 298 who died, 193 were Dutch citizens.

Oleksander Kharchenko, spokesman for the state committee on the crash, said “we will do our best” to send the bodies to the Netherlands on Tuesday. Ukraine has agreed to send remains of all the victims there for identification and forensic investigation.