The king, queen and prime minister of the Netherlands will lead mourners as the first victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster are repatriated from Ukraine today.

Around 200 bodies are being flown to the town of Eindhoven on military aircraft.

US intelligence officials say they believe pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine shot down the jet by mistake.

Two thirds of the passengers on the downed flight were Dutch.

This woman - who paid tribute to victims outside Amsterdam's Schiphol airport - thinks authorities should have acted more quickly: