Personal belongings of MH17 passengers. Photograph
"An unlikely menagerie of dead pets lay strewn across the grass," continues the report from Grabovo by Harriet Salem (@HarrietSalem).
A bright blue and yellow macaws, a cockatoo, a random giant St Bernard dog curled peacefully where he fell. The sticky Ukrainian summer will not be kind to the bodies. Warm sunshine gave way to rain and humidity on Friday. By late afternoon, the sharp tang of kerosene had been overpowered by something altogether more macabre: the cloying smell of death. "Initially I thought it was a paratrooper descending from the plane but then realized that there were people falling from the sky in the passenger seats," one of the rebels told the Guardian.
Rescue workers were overwhelmed by the scene. Volunteer miners combed the long grass for bodies; some of the first emergency workers on the scene bizarrely happened to be a unit trained in scuba diving search and rescue. "This isn't our area of expertise," said Boris, 41, an experienced diver who drove his unit to the scene in a Soviet-era Gaz military vehicle. "We have no idea where anything is, we have a huge task ahead of us. We've not experienced anything like this, nothing on this scale."
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