Malaysia Airlines Victims' Photos Surface As World Mourns
All 298 passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 died after the plane exploded high over eastern Ukraine on Thursday.
U.S. officials believe the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile from an area inside Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
See images of the victims below, and read more updates on the situation:
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Karlijn Keijzer
Indiana University
Karlijn Keijzer
was a 25-year-old doctoral student in the chemistry department at the
Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences.
“On behalf of the entire Indiana University community, I want to express
my deepest sympathies to Karlijn’s family and friends over her tragic
death,” Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie said in a
statement. “Karlijn was an outstanding student and a talented athlete,
and her passing is a loss to the campus and the university. Our hearts
also go out to the families of all the victims of this senseless act.”
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John, Yuli, Arjuna and Sri Paulissen
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Widi Yuwono, the brother of Yuli Hastini, right,
shows her sister's family portrait with her Dutch husband John Paulissen
and their two children Arjuna and Sri who were on board of the crashed
Malaysia Airlines flight 17, at his residence in Solo, Central Java,
Indonesia, Friday, July 18, 2014. The Malaysian jetliner that went down
in war-torn Ukraine did not make any distress call, Malaysian Prime
Minister Najib Razak said Friday, adding that its flight route had been
declared safe by the global civil aviation body.
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Wayan Sujana
Christopher Furlong / Getty Images
A photograph of Indonesian man Wayan Sujana of
Bali, believed to be missing on Air Malaysia flight MH17, is fixed to
the ticketing desk of Air Malaysia at Schiphol Airport on July 18, 2014
in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Joep Lange
Peter Lowie/AMC/AP
In this October 2008 photo provided by AMC
Amsterdam on Friday, July 18, 2014, former president of the
International AIDS Society Joep Lange is seen. A large number of
world-renowned AIDS researchers and activists heading to an
international AIDS conference in Australia were on board a Malaysian
jetliner that was shot down over Ukraine, officials said Friday, as news
of their deaths sparked an outpouring of grief across the global
scientific community. Among them was Joep Lange, a well-known
researcher from the Netherlands . (Peter Lowie/AMC/AP)
Glenn Thomas
WHO / AP
An undated photo made available Friday, July 18,
2014, by the World Health Organization of Glenn Thomas, 49, a media
officer at the WHO in Geneva, who died on board Malaysian Airlines
flight MH17 which was shot down over the Ukraine Thursday as it traveled
from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. (AP Photo/WHO)
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Hendry Se
Family of Hendry Se/AFP/Getty Images
This handout photograph released on July 18, 2014
by the family of Hendry Se, an Indonesian passenger on the crashed
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shows Henrdy at her graduation. (Family
of Hendry Se/AFP/Getty Images)
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Quinn Schansman
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Nick Norris
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Nick Norris from Perth, Australia, was on board with three of his grandchildren.
Ninik Yuriani
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Sister Philomene Tiernan
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Frankie Davison and Liam Davison
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Susan Horder
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Howard Horder
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Jill Guard
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Roger Guard
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Liliane Derden
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Emiel Mahler
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Mo, Otis and Evie Maslin
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Liam Sweeney
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Emma Bell
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