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3. Close up of screen showing picture of Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) special monitoring mission to Ukraine

4. STILL OF Bociurkiw on screen, AUDIO: (English) Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine (speaking on phone)

"Okay, well, today was quite a significant development in the sense that we were able to, under very good security, visit the village of Torez, near the crash site. There, we went to the railway station and at the railway station there were several cars, three or four which were refrigerated. We were told these cars hold victims of the MH17 crash."

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7. STILL OF Bociurkiw, AUDIO: (English) Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine (speaking on phone)

"Right. Okay so we were told there are 169 - one-six-nine (bodies). Because of the conditions of the train, I mean you need professional protective equipment to go in there, and the stench was absolutely overwhelming. I don't want to be too gruesome but it is a very, very difficult scene to watch. We were told that, for the time being, those cars will be stationary. And that they were wondering when experts will be arriving to start processing the bodies. But I think the kind of thinking is that the cars should be taken to Ukrainian-controlled territories such as Kharkiv and they can be processed there."

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10. STILL OF Bociurkiw, AUDIO: (English) Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine (speaking on phone)

"We're looking at the field where the engines have come down. This is an area which was exposed to the most intense heat. We do not see any bodies here. It appears that some have been vaporised, not only bodies but also parts. The heat must have been absolutely intense."

11. Andriy Lysenko, Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Spokesperson, speaking

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13. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Spokesperson:

"The bodies of 196 people have been found and the search operation committee has expanded the search area from 25 to 34 square kilometres."

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16. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Spokesperson:

"All the bodies that have been directly under the sun have started to decompose. It is necessary to collect everything as fast as possible and remove them because it is becoming a danger to the civilian population of the area."

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International observers said on Sunday that 169 bodies of those killed in the Malaysian Airline MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine have been removed from the crash site and loaded into refrigerated trains nearby.

Michael Bociurkiw, the spokesman of the Organisation of Security and Corporation (OSCE) mission to Ukraine, the organisation in charge of investigating the crash, said the train cars were expected to be taken to Ukrainian - controlled territories such as Kharkiv, where they could be processed.

"Today was quite a significant development in the sense that we were able to, under very good security, visit the village of Torez, near the crash site. There, we went to the railway station and at the railway station there were several cars, three or four which were refrigerated. We were told these cars hold victims of the MH17 crash," he told reporters gathered in Kiev, by phone.

According to Bociurkiw, the body bags had been numbered by pro-Russian rebels, who told him they loaded 169 bodies into the train.

The OSCE team, however, did not enter the train cars to investigate because they didn't have safety equipment to wear.

Walking through the crash site while speaking over the phone to journalists in Kiev, Bociurkiw suggested that some bodies might never be found.

"This is an area which was exposed to the most intense heat. We do not see any bodies here. It appears that some have been vaporised, not only bodies but also parts. The heat must have been absolutely intense," he said.

The Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Spokesperson Andriy Lysenko said 196 bodies had been recovered and the search area was expanded.

Rebels said the bodies recovered from the crash site would remain in refrigerated train cars at a station in the rebel-held town of Torez, 15 kilometres (9 miles) away, until the arrival of an international aviation delegation.

They also said they have recovered the black boxes from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and would hand them over to the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

Ukraine and the separatists accuse each other of firing a surface-to-air missile Thursday at Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur some 33,000 feet (10,000 metres) above the battlefields of

eastern Ukraine.

Both deny shooting down the plane. All those onboard the flight - 283 passengers and 15 crew - were killed.