Flight MH17: Four men go on trial for murder

The accused are not expected to appear in Schiphol court

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(Image credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

Four men will go on trial today in the Netherlands in the first criminal case resulting from the murder of 298 people on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

The Boeing 777 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 after Russian-backed rebels seized the area.

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