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MH17 tragedy: world marks 10 years since downing of flight over Ukraine

People inspect the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Hrabove, Russian-controlled Donetsk region of Ukraine on Thursday, July 17, 2014. © AP / Dmitry Lovetsky

Australia and the Netherlands are among the countries officially marking the tenth anniversary of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17's downing, an incident that claimed 298 lives when pro-Russian separatists shot down the plane over eastern Ukraine in 2014.

On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, a Boeing 777 traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was downed over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile.

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