Restraint prevails as the Netherlands mournsits dead in country’s second-worst air disaster

Schiphol Airport is the wrong place to be for family and friends of those who died on Malaysian flight MH17.

Restraint prevails as the Netherlands mournsits dead in country’s second-worst air disaster

Flowers at the Malaysia Airlines desk are the only clue that this place has a connection to the tragedy that had taken 298 lives less than 24 hours earlier.

Flags in the Netherlands are flying at half-mast as the prime minister, Mark Rutte, gives a media briefing on the second-worst air tragedy in the country’s history, with the death of 189 citizens.

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