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Update - Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser: Malaysian plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile & all 295 people on board are dead
Ukraine says rebels shoot down Malaysian airliner, 295 dead
BY ANTON ZVEREV
GRABOVO Ukraine Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:32pm EDT
Local Ukrainian TV images purporting to show a Malaysia passenger airliner MH17 crashing in Ukraine near the Russian border. Photograph: Universal News And Sport (Europe)
(Reuters) - A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official said.
Raising the stakes in the East-West showdown between Kiev and Moscow, the official blamed "terrorists" using a ground-to-air missile and Ukraine's prime minister called the downing of the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur a "catastrophe".
A Reuters correspondent saw burning wreckage and bodies on the ground at the village of Grabovo, about 40 km (25 miles) from the Russian border in an area where pro-Russian rebels have been active and have claimed to have shot down other aircraft.
The Boeing 777 came down near the city of Donetsk, stronghold of pro-Russian rebels, interior ministry official Anton Gerashchenko said on Facebook, adding it was "shot down with a Buk anti-aircraft system by terrorists" - the term the Kiev government uses for militants seeking to unite eastern Ukraine with Russia. The dead were 280 passengers and 15 crew.
Malaysia Airlines said on its Twitter feed it had lost contact with its flight MH-17 from Amsterdam. "The last known position was over Ukrainian air space," it said.
A rebel leader said Ukrainian forces shot the airliner down. Ukrainian official said their military was not involved.
Interfax-Ukraine quoted another Ukrainian official as saying the plane disappeared from radar when it was flying at 10,000 metres (33,000 feet), a typical cruising altitude for airliners.
Ukraine has accused Russia of taking an active role in the four-month-old conflict in recent days and accused it earlier on Thursday of shooting down a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet - an accusation that Moscow denied.
The military commander of the rebels, a Russian named Igor Strelkov, had written on his social media page shortly before the report of the airliner being downed that his forces had brought down an Antonov An-26 in the same area. It is a turboprop transport plane of a type used by Ukraine's forces.
유노윤호가 본드 음료 테러 사건에 대해 언급했다.
24일 방송된 MBC 예능프로그램 '별바라기'에서는 유노윤호의 8년 전 발생했던 본드 음료 테러 사건에 대해 언급해 눈길을 끌었다.
이날 유노윤호는 "예능 프로그램 녹화를 마치고 한 20대 여성팬이 음료수를 줘서 마셨다. 내가 뚜껑을 열면 원샷을 하는 타입이다. 이후 바로 쓰려졌는데 사람들이 피를 토하며 쓰려졌다고 하더라. 바로 병원에 실려갔다"고 밝혔다.
이어 유노윤호는 "흰색 강력본드가 들어가 있었다. 그게 위 안에 들어가서 세척을 했다"며 "한동안 역류성 위염 때문에 힘들었다. 이후 음료수도 마시지 못할 정도로 힘들었는데 이제는 다 극복했다. 그때는 은퇴까지 고려할 정도로 힘들었었다. 사람들과 눈도 마주치기 힘들었고 공황장애를 겪기도 했다"고 고백했다.
한편 이날 방송에서는 유노윤호, 비스트, 김경호 등이 팬들과 함께 출연했다.
[앰뷸런스에 실린 유병언 전 회장 시신 / 사진=연합뉴스]
