Bodies of MH17 victims are loaded on to transport plane at Ukraine airport as they begin trip to the Netherlands

The first bodies of those killed in the MH17 massacre have been loaded on to a cargo plane ready to be transported to the Netherlands.

The bodies of around 200 international victims of the Malaysia Airlines tragedy have already been transported by train from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to government-controlled Kharkiv, and will now be flown to Eindhoven to carry out an identification process which may take months.

There is concern however, that as many as 95 victims - one third of the total number of passengers on board MH17 - may still be missing after Dutch officials counted only 200 bodies on board the refrigerated morgue train in which rebels claimed to have placed 282 corpses and 87 body parts from a further 16 people.