International observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) confirmed that they had inspected a train holding the bodies of victims of flight MH17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17.<br /><br />The OSCE monitors said that they had observed a train in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez, around 15 kilometres from the MH17 crash site, containing human remains. <br /><br />The monitors told reporters at Torez that they could not confirm the number of bodies on the train.<br /><br />There were 298 people on board MH17 when it crashed. The whereabouts of many of the victims are unknown.<br /><br />There has been an international outcry over how the bodies have been handled.<br /><br />The OSCE monitors said armed rebels had been limiting their access to the crash site.<br /><br />The Ukrainian authorities claimed that the rebels had taken some bodies from their workers by force.<br /><br />The crash site remains unsecured. There have been reports of evidence tampering and looting.
