PARIS: The international police organization (Interpol) based in Lyon, France, said on Friday they are ready to send in the next 48 hours a team to help identify the victims of flight MH17 of Malaysia Airlines that crashed Thursday in eastern Ukraine.

In a press release, Interpol announced that at the request of the Ukrainian authorities, they are about to send in the next 48 hours an Incident Response Team (IRT) including Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) experts and a representative of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) to provide assistance on site.

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