Hope for Australian couple after loss of three children in downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

An Australian couple whose three children were killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine two years ago have welcomed a baby, saying the birth has given them faith that love trumps hate.

Anthony Maslin and Marite Norris, of the western Australian city of Perth, said the arrival of their daughter Violet May Maslin, on Tuesday, had brought them “love and light, hope and joy” after enduring two years of grief over the loss of their three children.

Mo, 12, Evie, 10, and Otis, 8, died with their grandfather, Nick Norris, when Flight 17 was shot down by a missile over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.