Police team cancels Ukraine crash-site visit over safety fears

A team of international police officers that had been due to visit the site of the Malaysia Airlines plane disaster in eastern Ukraine has cancelled the trip after receiving reports of fighting in the area.

Alexander Hug, the deputy head of a monitoring team from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said it would be too dangerous for the unarmed mission to travel to the area from its current location in the rebel-held city of Donetsk.