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Photos: The long final journey of the victims of Flight MH17

July 22, 2014 10:48AM ET

Four days after their plane was shot down, the bodies of the passengers are delivered to authorities

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A rose on a plastic sheet covering a victim of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, near Rozsypne, Ukraine, on July 18, the day the plane was shot down. Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters
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During the early hours of the recovery effort, workers used white ribbons on sticks to indicate the location of human remains. Brendan Hoffman / Getty Images
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Ukrainian Emergency Ministry workers remove a body from the crash site on July 19. Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters
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Recovery workers collect bodies, July 19. On the day after the disaster, armed pro-Russian separatists impeded access to crash sites. Anastasia Vlasova / EPA
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Bodies of victims are loaded onto a truck on Monday in Grabovo. 2014 Getty Images
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At a train depot in Torez, the bodies are transferred to a refrigerated railcar on Monday. Brendan Hoffman / Getty Images
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The doors of the refrigerated cars carrying the victims were sealed with foam. Sergei Kozlov / EPA
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The train’s arrival in Kharkiv on Tuesday was the subject of much media interest. The train contained approximately 200 of the 298 people killed. Gleb Garanich / Reuters
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A Ukrainian policeman at the train’s arrival in Kharkiv, which is in territory controlled by the Kiev government. From there, they will be taken to the Netherlands for identification. Gleb Garanich / Reuters