GRABOVO , Ukraine, July 18 (UPI) -- International investigators arrived Friday at the eastern Ukraine site of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Thirty staff members of the Organization for the Security and Co-operation in Europe reached the site, near the village of Grabovo, after they were allowed safe access to the area by leaders of the separatist movement fighting Ukrainian military troops.
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Debris from the crash of the Boeing 777, in which 298 people were killed, covers a wide area in rebel-held territory.
Among the dead was world-renowned AIDS researcher Joep Lange, a Dutch citizen, who was traveling to Melbourne, Australia, with several other prominent researchers to attend a conference on HIV.
