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Malaysia Airlines plane MH17 crashes in Ukraine - live updates

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• 295 people on board plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine
• Bodies and wreckage found near town of Grabovo
• Uncertainty over who has capability to shoot down flight
• Ukrainian, Russian and rebel leaders deny involvementil

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  • theguardian.com, Thursday 17 July 2014 21.46 BST
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Emergency workers at the site of a Malaysia Airlines crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Photograph: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters

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US confirms MH17 was shot down

MH17 "was shot down" and there "may have been American citizens on board", US vice-president Joe Biden said in a speech at the Netroots Nation conference in Detroit.

Senior US officials have told the Wall Street Journal and CNN, as well as other American news outlets, that they have confirmed a surface-to-air missile brought down the plane.

As explained by Barbara Starr on CNN, US intelligence found a heat signature from "a massive event" and also had "information from intelligence assets" confirming the use of a surface-to-air missile system.

"[US intelligence has] another asset that gives them a heat signature, an infrared heat signature that tells them there was a massive event … they put both of these pieces of information together and concluded that the plane was shot down," Starr said.

US intelligence is reportedly still working to determine the exact location from which the missile was fired, and whether it was on the Russian or the Ukrainian side of the border.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/malaysia-airlines-plane-crashes-ukraine-live