ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Emergencies ministry personnel attempted to extinguish fires from the wreckage of a Malaysia Airways Boeing 777 that crashed near the Ukrainian border that still burned hours later on Thursday (July 17).<br/> <br />A Malaysian airliner was brought down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising the stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels in which Russia and the West back opposing sides.<br/> <br />Ukraine accused "terrorists" - militants fighting to unite eastern Ukraine with Russia - of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with a heavy, Soviet-era SA-11 ground-to-air missile as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.<br/> <br />Leaders of the rebel Donetsk People's Republic denied any involvement, although around the same time their military commander said his forces had downed a much smaller Ukrainian transport plane. It would be their third such kill this week.<br/> <br />The scale of the disaster
