On the ground, recovery experts began the grisly task of collecting
remains of the 298 people killed two days earlier when a Malaysia
Airlines jet exploded over the war zone of eastern Ukraine.
Across diplomatic channels, world leaders complained the recovery is
not happening fast enough, mainly because pro-Russia militants control
the crash site.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte urged Russian President Vladimir Putin
to use his influence to force the rebels to allow full access.
"I want to see results in the form of unimpeded access and rapid
recovery," Rutte said in a press briefing. "This is now priority
number one."
Nearly two-thirds of the people on the jetliner, which was en route
from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, were Dutch.
Saturday brought a shift from the initial shock over the air disaster
to the painstaking forensic and diplomatic challenges of figuring out
what happened and how much the tragedy will escalate the Ukrainian
conflict.
Masked gunmen at crash site
At the crash site, armed gunmen -- some of them masked -- kept close
watch over a team of observers from the Organization for Security and
Co-operation in Europe who gained access for a second day. Artillery
fire reverberated in the distance.
Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the OSCE group, told CNN that no
security perimeter had been established and no one appeared to be in
charge. While he said his monitors had better access than on Friday,
observing about 75 body bags collected by civilian emergency workers,
he described the situation as far from ideal for such a huge crime
scene.
Meanwhile, international pressure increased on Russia to exert its
influence over separatist rebels it supports who are fighting the
Ukrainian government in the region
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