AMSTERDAM: Around 70 coffins containing the remains of MH17 victims within body bags have been opened and examined by disaster victim identification (DVI) experts as of Wednesday, said Health Minister Datuk Seri S. Subramaniam (pic).
He said it was likely that all the body bags from the 227 coffins flown over from the crash site in Torez, Ukraine, to the Hilversum medical military base in the Netherlands would be examined within two to three weeks.
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