Malaysia Airlines heeft vanmorgen de officiële lijst van nationaliteiten van de passagiers van de neergeschoten 777 gepubliceerd. Veruit de meeste komen uit Nederland: 192, waarvan een met een dubbele nationaliteit.
Hieronder het volledige persbericht.
Media Statement 6: MH17 Incident
The below table shows the latest number of passengers and their nationalities of those on-board MH17, as of 19 July 2014:-
Nationality Total
Netherlands 192 (including 1 dual Netherlands/USA citizen)
Malaysia 44 (including 15 crew & 2 infants)
Australia 27
Indonesia 12 (including 1 infant)
United Kingdom 10 (including 1 dual UK/S. Africa citizen)
Germany 4
Belgium 4
Philippines 3
Canada 1
New Zealand 1
Total 298
Malaysia Airlines is working closely with the respective embassies to notify the next-of-kin of the passengers.
Our focus now is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilize its full support to provide all possible care to the next-of-kin.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected passengers and crew and their family members.
The airline will provide regular updates on the situation.
Families of passengers and crew may contact +603 7884 1234 (Malaysia) or +31703487770 (Netherlands).
For media queries, kindly contact +603 8777 5698/ +603 8787 1276.
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