Airline releases nationalities of passengers
Although the passenger list is not being released at this time, Malaysia Airlines releases a breakdown of the nationalities of the passengers on board flight MH17. At least 189 were Dutch, 28 were Australians, 28 were Malaysians, 12 were Indonesian, 9 were from the United Kingdom, 4 were from Germany, 4 were from Belgium, 3 were from the Philippines, 1 was Canadian and 1 was from Hong Kong. Authorities are still trying to determine the nationalities of the other passengers.