VIDEO: Ukraine says Malaysian airliner shot down, 298 dead

Malaysian airliner carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17 in rebel-held east Ukraine, as Kiev said the jet was shot down in a "terrorist" attack.

Ukraine's government and pro-Russian insurgents traded blame for the disaster, with comments attributed to a rebel commander suggesting his men may have downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 by mistake, believing it was a Ukrainian army transport plane.

Rescue workers at the crash site told an AFP reporter that they had found one of the black boxes from the passenger liner.
      
Emergency crews were working through the debris of the downed jet that was spread out across an area stretching for kilometres while rebels controlling the area have pledged to allow international investigators access to the site. 

There was no sign of survivors at the crash site near the rebel-held town of Shaktarsk in the Donetsk region, where debris stretched for kilometres in the area near the Russian border, with the jet's tail marked with the Malaysian Airlines insignia laying in a corn field, and insurgent fighters and fire trucks nearby.

The official spokesman for President Petro Poroshenko said he believed pro-Russian insurgents downed the jet. "This incident is not a catastrophe. It is a terrorist act," Poroshenko's spokesman posted on Twitter.

The Ukrainian leader said earlier that "the Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets in the sky" and vowed "those behind this tragedy will be brought to justice."

Separatist leader Alexander Borodai, meanwhile, accused the Ukrainian government of bringing down the airliner.

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