TORONTO – A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying nearly 300 people was shot down Thursday over a town in the east of the country, and Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights over Ukrainian airspace.
Here’s a look at some of the images shared on social media purporting to be from the scene of the crash site.
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