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The tragic victims of Flight MH17: EIGHTY children among the 298 who perished on doomed plane - including a brilliant young British mathematician, Catholic nun, UN worker and leading Aids doctor

  1. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over territory held by Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine
  2. Body parts and wreckage from flight, headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, spread over nine-mile area
  3. Nine Britons and 189 Dutch have been confirmed dead, along with 27 Australians and 44 Malaysians
  4. Three Australian children - Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin, aged between eight and 12 - were among those killed
  5. An entire Indonesian family - including a five-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, also died in the attack
  6. Two British students - Richard Mayne, 20, and Ben Pocock, in his early 20s, were also named as victims today
  7. Also named were press officer Glenn Thomas, 49, and Newcastle United fans John Alder and Liam Sweeney
  8. As many as 100 of the victims are thought to have been Aids experts on their way to a conference in Melbourne

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