'These are the most terrible days of my life'

NATALYA ZABOTNAYA takes a huge breath of fresh air as she emerges from a morgue in western Ukraine, where the body supposed to be her son's turned out to be another "poor man".

'These are the most terrible days of my life'

Her daughter and her boyfriend support the middle-aged woman, her eyes red and her face puffy, as she walks away from the morgue where the stench of burnt flesh hangs around a huge refrigerator as officials sift through body parts.

A queue of people, weeping or stunned into silence, await their turn to identify the bodies of dozens killed when a fighter jet crashed into spectators at an air show in the western city of Lviv on Saturday.

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