We here at FGGAM ask you to join us in prayer for all the families that lost loves ones in the extreme tragedy. We also pray for peace in the region, in Jesus name, Amen! 
The bodies of nearly 300 passengers and crew aboard the Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over Ukraine are being turned over to Dutch authorities, while the black boxes from Flight 17 were handed over to Malaysian authorities, pro-Russian separatists said yesterday.
The announcement came amid increasing criticism of the separatists’ handling of the crash site in eastern Ukraine, and charges that Moscow was helping ethnic Russian insurgents orchestrate a cover-up.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told reporters the leader of the pro-Russian rebels agreed to hand over both of the jetliner’s black boxes to Malaysian investigators in Ukraine.
Najib also said that the remains of 282 of the crash victims currently in the rebel-held eastern town of Torez are being moved by train to Kharkiv in Ukraine, where they will be handed over to Dutch authorities. The remains are then expected to be flown to Amsterdam.
Najib also said that as part of an agreement he reached with rebel leader Alexander Borodai Monday night, independent international investigators will be given “safe access” to the crash site.
Earlier, international leaders said the probe into the downing of the Boeing 777 had turned “shambolic,” and an intercepted communication appeared to capture Moscow directing Russian separatists in Ukraine to keep evidence out of the hands of objective investigators.
Since the plane went down over Ukraine near the Russian border on Thursday, killing all 298 aboard, separatists had kept investigators from the scene, seized the black boxes and even taken custody of corpses, packing them in body bags and onto refrigerated train cars. There were even reports of looting from the bodies, and the credit cards of the dead used by ghoulish thieves.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose country lost 192 citizens on the plane, told a news conference Sunday that repatriating the bodies was his “No. 1 priority.” His persistence appears to have paid off as a refrigerated train bearing many of the bodies pulled away Monday from Torez — 9 miles from the crash site.
Earlier in the day, Dutch experts had called for a full forensic sweep of the Flight 17 crash site and told armed separatists guarding the rail cars that the train must be allowed to leave as soon as possible. AP journalists said the smell of decay was overwhelming at the Torez train station and many of the inspectors wore masks or pressed cloths to their faces on the sunny, hot day.
A Ukrainian train engineer told The Associated Press that a power outage had hit the cars’ refrigeration system for several hours overnight but was back up early Monday.
Peter Van Vilet, leader of the Dutch National Forensic Investigations Team visiting Ukraine, said seeing the crash site in the farm fields near the eastern village of Hrabove was an emotional experience that gave him goose bumps despite the heat.
“As anyone who has been watching the footage will know, this is still an absolutely shambolic situation,” Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said at a news conference. “The site is being treated more like a garden clean-up than a forensic investigation.”
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