Bodies moved from MH17 site as world demands probe

International monitors said Sunday that pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine had loaded scores of bodies from the crash site of downed Malaysian jet MH17 into train wagons as grieving families clamoured to have their loved ones brought home.
      
Observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) found the corpses packed into a series of refrigerated train wagons at a station in the town of Torez, some 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the crash site.
      
Spokesman Michael Bociurkiw described the stench at the station as "almost unbearable" and said separatists guarding the grisly cargo had pledged not to move the bodies until "international experts" arrive.        

Top rebel leader Alexander Borodai told Russia's Echo of Moscow radio the fighters had loaded 196 bodies on to the trains.
      
What happens to the remains of the 298 people killed in the apparent shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane Thursday has become of primary concern after they lay for days rotting in cornfields.
      
World leaders have demanded Russian President Vladimir Putin use his influence to persuade the rebels to hand over the victims and allow international investigators unfettered access to the crash site in Grabove.        

The United States believes Moscow provided Ukrainian rebels with the missile launchers that blasted the plane out of the sky, several US newspapers reported.
      
France warned Russia on Sunday of "consequences" at the EU if Moscow did not "immediately take the necessary measures", after the leaders of France, Germany and Britain held a conference call.
      
An AFP crew found the scene of the tragedy largely...