{"id":32592,"date":"2014-07-17T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=32592"},"modified":"2014-07-17T16:37:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:37:04","slug":"breaking-newsukraine-says-malaysian-airliner-shot-down-295-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/breaking-newsukraine-says-malaysian-airliner-shot-down-295-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News:Ukraine says Malaysian airliner shot down, 295 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency.<\/p>\n
The aircraft, which other sources said was a Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, came down near the city of Donetsk, stronghold of pro-Russian rebels, Anton Gerashchenko said, adding that it was hit by a ground-to-air missile.<\/p>\n
There was no further confirmation of the report, although Ukrainian officials said local residents had found wreckage.<\/p>\n
Malaysia Airlines said on its Twitter feed it had lost contact with its flight MH-17 from Amsterdam. “The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace,” it said.<\/p>\n
Gerashchenko was quoted as saying: “A civilian airliner travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has just been shot down by a Buk anti-aircraft system … 280 passengers and 15 crew have been killed.”<\/p>\n
Interfax-Ukraine quoted another Ukrainian official as saying the plane disappeared from radar when it was flying at 10,000 metres<\/span> (33,000 feet), a typical cruising altitude for<\/span> airliners.<\/p>\n It came down at Torez, near Shakhtersk, some 40 km (25 miles) from the Russia<\/span> border. The area has been the scene of fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels.<\/p>\n Ukraine has accused Russia of taking an active role in the four-month-old conflict in recent days and accused it earlier on Thursday of shooting down a Ukrainian fighter jet – an accusation that Moscow denied.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency. The aircraft, which other sources said was a Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, came down near the city of Donetsk, stronghold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":32687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[14],"yoast_head":"\n