21 Jul 2014 11:23

DPR authorities plan to send bodies to Kharkiv accompanied by intl mediators

MOSCOW. July 21 (Interfax) - The leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) are going to arrange for the bodies of the victims of the Malaysian Boeing crash to be sent to Kharkiv, DPR first deputy prime minister Andriy Purgin told Interfax on Monday.

"So far the victims' bodies remain in the railcars of the refrigerator train at the Torez station. They will be sent to Kharkiv only after international experts - Dutch, Malaysian or the Red Cross representatives - arrive at the scene. They are to accompany the train with the bodies, we are ready to add a separate railcar for them," Purgin said.