Villagers still scarred by MH17 tragedy

The field outside Hrabove, which was littered one year ago today with bodies and smelling of burnt flesh and plastic, now smells of wild flowers.

But the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 still haunts residents, who remember the bodies that plummeted from the sky above their sleepy village in eastern Ukraine.

“People came out of their houses to see a boy without the head, who was lying there,” on the street, recalled villager Nadezhda Tsyb. “Then I saw a girl: She was coming down from the sky, whirling in the air, then she fell into my neighbour’s vegetable patch.”