Miles away from the somber ceremony on a tarmac where coffins containing the remains of victims of Flight MH17 were returned, dozens of forensic scientists at a military base in the Netherlands were preparing for the grim task of identifying the remains.In all, 298 passengers and crew -- among them dozensof children -- were killed when the packed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 they were on crashed in eastern Ukraine last Thursday.All of the bodies and body parts recovered from the crash site will eventually be brought to Hilversum, Netherlands, where a team of experts from the Dutch national forensics unit (Landelijk Team Forensische Opsporing) will do everything they can to return the dead to their loved ones."You don't know which nationality each body is," explains Jos van Roo of LTFO. "So we try to identify all the bodies. We are in contact with the other countries to combine efforts to identify the bodies."The LTFO has experience of other mass disasters, having worked on the 2004 Asian tsunami, the crash ofAfriqiyah Airways Flight 771 in Libya in 2010 and other incidents in the Netherlands.Van Roo says great care has and will continue to be taken over the bodies, out of respect for the victims andto avoid any further distress to their families.Forensics specialist: 'It must be very precise'It is painstaking work, van Roo says: "There are lot of bodies and body parts coming our way. [Everything] must be examined. ... It must be very precise. You must make sure you don't give the wrong body to the wrong family."The team's work began days ago on the Ukrainian fieldnear the Russian border where MH17's journey from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur came to a premature end.Forensic genetics expert Denise Syndercombe-Court of King's College London says some identifications will be relatively simple.
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