MH17 Victims Identification Could Take Months -Dutch PM

As 74 more coffins of the MH17 victims' remains arrive in Day-2, Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte has announced that the first group of MH17 victims which flown into Netherlands on Wednesday, where their identification could take months. Continue...

"Preparations will be made in Kharkiv so that identification can be done in the Netherlands as well as possible," Mr Rutte said. "As soon as a victim is identified, first and foremost, the family will be informed and no one else. That can take weeks or months."

The Dutch, who are leading the identification and crash investigation missions, weren't able to allow all of the SMART team members into the controlled area. Just 20 were granted access.

All journalists have been banned from entering the restricted zone, too. One Malaysian reporter told AAP: "Why haven't they let us in?"

"It is out plane - we have to show the Malaysian prime minister."

Dutch forensic specialists are aware they have a huge task ahead of them.