Shelling hampers experts at MH17 site

Shelling about 2km from where international experts had been working has forced them to pull back to a safer distance.

Shelling close to the vast crash site of downed flight MH17 has forced international investigators to cut short a visit to an area where some of the jet's wreckage is lying.

"We heard at a distance of approximately two kilometres incoming artillery from where we were and that was too close to continue," said Alexander Hug, deputy chief monitor with the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe's mission in Ukraine.

Hug said the team had agreed earlier with both government forces and pro-Russian rebels to visit the village of Petropavlivka as part of the broader search operation.


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