Dutch investigators on Monday inspected bodies recovered from downed passenger airliner MH17. The bodies had been loaded onto refrigerated train cars in rebel-controlled east Ukraine.

An overpowering stench emanated as each of the cars, which together hold more than 200 corpses, was opened and examined by two men wearing masks.

"I think the storage of the bodies is good," Peter van Vliet, the forensic expert leading the Dutch team, said after examining the corpses.