Page 175 - Emergency Workers News Today

>> they are still the ones that have the authority to hear. official emergency workers who are paid by the central ukrainian government. they are here. they are the ones that are doing their best under the circumstances particularly in terms of collection of the bodies. they are directing the volunteer miners and their searches across the fields and farmland. i think its only around 380 or so government employees are here on the ground. thats still a small number. the search area involved, some ...

Aviation disaster of this scale. what about these reports that some of the bodies had been removed and taken away altogether? >> there are and there were reports in the early days that the bodies were being removed by those pro russian militants who very much maintain control. this territory is still very much in the control of pro russian militants. there are hundreds of local emergency workers here, local emergency workers who ultimately answer to the ukrainian government. there were reports a...

Activity in terms of removing the bodies. most of the bodies that are still here 24 hours ago, still some okay days after the accid they have been recovered. were told some 196 bodies in all are now in possession of the emergency workers that have been leading this recovery effort. and the search is also stepping up as well for those remaining victims because we are seeing volunteers, truck loads of local miners, being brought in and instructed, guided by the emergency workers, to fan out across...

What sort of investigation is going on there? >> i think were seeing some definite changes from just as the situation was 24 hours ago. there is a greater degree of control here from emergency workers who are here. the remains of the aircraft just there. the people who are now in control of this site they are preventing vehicles from moving further up the road to the main crash area just a few hundred meters up there behind me. were also seeing a lot more activity on the ground. a lot of the bod...

That the aircraft most likely to some -- to a very significant degree broke up in the skies overhead showering this wide area with the wreckage you see behind me and many bodies we see here, as well, anderson. >> and there is no attempt at this point to actually or no capabilities, really, at this point to try to deal with and preserve and bring dignity to those who have died, correct? >> reporter: very limited capability, certainly. i cant comment on what extent there is motivation. we dont see...

Stands out, what you see behind me, these big pieces of wreckage that really represent the catastrophe that took place over the skies more than 24 hours ago. the sheer force responsible for tearing apart the aircraft but then you look closer into the fields, the very wide open fields in this area or among the tall grass and see evidence of the human costs. there are still so many bodies lying here, lying in the grass and they do not look like they are about to be moved in the near future. there ...

Some in the fields, some by the road. there has been some effort by emergency workers here to identify those locations. and you can see that, because thats where they have stuck a stick into the ground and attached a little bit of white cloth to it. this are so many pieces of white cloth, it is really, really quite distressing. but as i say, something of a recovery operation under way here. but it is very limited, very small especially when you consider the scale of the disaster that were talkin...

It is marked very poignantly of the many pieces of white ribbon tied to sticks, which mark the location of bodies, which are yet to be recovered. and there are many of them. this region, this territory, is still controlled by pro-russian militants. they have allowed some emergency workers to come in and begin a very small scale, quite disorganized, recovery operation, but what we do not see here are the many highly qualified people that are required to come in, secure the site, begin an investig...

Location of bodies which are yet to be recovered. and there are many of them. this region, this territory is still controlled by pro-russian militants. they have allowed some emergency workers to come in and begin. a very small scale. quite disorganized recovery operation. but what we do not see here are the many highly qualified people that are required to come in, secure the site, begin an investigation and recover the bodies of the many people who had no direct connection to the violence, the...

What is also interesting to note is that although is it dark we are surrounded by fields as far as we can see, no other big pieces of wreckage but there are others some distance from here. indicating the sense that the debris field is so big. and the debris field is secured and under control of the prorusspr pro-russian rebels you have been talking about. they are here, they are armed and keeping an eye on the small amount of emergency workers who have been permitted to come in here and do some ...