Najib, Rosmah visit families of MH17 victims

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pic) visited the families and relatives of passengers aboard the ill-fated MH17 today.

Najib, who was accompanied by his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor spent sometime meeting the families at a hotel in Putrajaya.

Najib has made a statement about MH17, saying those responsible for the tragedy should be brought to justice as soon as possible.

MH17 had departed from Amsterdam with 298 people, including three infants and was bound for Kuala Lumpur.

However, MH17 was hit by a surface-to-air missile as it was flying over Ukraine Thursday night.

Also present at the hotel were Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai and Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.

This is the second major tragedy to befall a Malaysia Airlines flight in the past four months, following the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370.

On March 8, flight MH370 departed from KLIA bound for Beijing with 12 crew members and 227 passengers on board.

Despite the massive land and air search from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean, there has been no sign of the aircraft.

Both the tragedies befalling MH17 and MH370 have resulted in a loss of 537 lives in total.

- TMI