Spokesperson for the World Health Organization Glenn Thomas was aboard the Malaysian Airlines flight that crashed in the east of Ukraine. Thomas was a citizen of the Netherlands.
Among the victims was step grandmother of Malaysia's PM Najib Razak. She liked traveling and was flying to Jogjakarta, Indonesia from Amsterdam, spokesperson for the government said.
Citizens of at least nine countries were aboard the Malaysian aircraft.
The Boeing-777 passenger plane crashed in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, near the Russian border. There were 283 passengers, and fifteen crew members in the aircraft.