Finally shown some respect: First bodies of MH17 victims leave Ukraine on transport plane as they begin trip to the Netherlands for painstaking identification process

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                        Photo Solemn: Four bodies are carried up to a transport plane during a ceremony at Kharkiv airport this morning. The bodies are being flown to the Netherlands after being recovered from the MH17 crash site

The first bodies of those killed in the MH17 massacre have left Ukraine on a cargo plane that will transport them to the Netherlands.
The remains of around 200 international victims of the Malaysia Airlines tragedy have already been moved by train from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to government-controlled Kharkiv, and will now be flown to Eindhoven to carry out an identification process which could take months.
There is concern however, that as many as 95 victims - one third of the total number of passengers on board MH17 - may still be missing after Dutch officials counted only 200 bodies on the morgue train on which rebels claim they placed 282 corpses and 87 body parts from a further 16 people.
The king and queen of the Netherlands will lead mourners as the first victims of the disaster are repatriated from the Ukraine later today.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima will be in Eindhoven with relatives of the 298 people - including 10 Britons - killed when the Boeing 777-200 was apparently shot down by Russia-backed separatists over eastern Ukraine on Thursday.
This morning the black boxes from flight MH17 arrived in Farnborough, Hampshire, where a team of British investigators from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch will analyse its contents for clues about what happened in the moments before the plane was shot out the sky. See More pictures below.
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