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Those responsible must be held to account: UK PM on MH17

| | Jul 19, 2014, at 03:23 am
london, July 18 (IBNS):British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday said 'those responsible' for the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which killed 298 people on board, must be held to account.

In his statement posted on his Facebook page, Camron said: "If, as seems possible, the plane was brought down then those responsible must be held to account and we must lose no time in doing that. It is an absolutely shocking incident; it cannot be allowed to stand."

"What is absolutely necessary is for all governments to cooperate in every way they can to get to the bottom of what happened, to make sure that this site can be properly investigated, and to make sure that the bodies of loved ones can be properly recovered," he said.

The Malaysian plane MH17 with 298 people on board which crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday  was shot down with a a surface-to-air missile, reports emerging out from the global community said now, amid a clamour for a full international investigation by various countries.

The flight was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when in crashed in a ball of fire with the global community now certain that it was shot down by Russian-backed rebels in the conflict zone between the ultras and the government of Ukraine.

The plane crashed near Hrabove village near Ukraine's border with Russia near the regional capital of Donetsk. The area is witnessing rebel groups backed by Russia fighting the Ukraine government forces. 

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