A sombre atmosphere prevailed at the Bunga Raya Complex of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, near here this morning as families and friends of MH17 gathered at a memorial service to honour their loved ones, who were killed in the tragic incident.
The event was being held to commemorate the first anniversary of the aircraft crash in Ukraine on July 17 last year that killed all 298 passengers and crew, among them 43 Malaysians. Flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it went down over Ukraine.