BREAKING: Malaysian Plane Shot Down Over Ukraine

IEV, Ukraine (AP) — An adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister says a Malaysian passenger plane, reportedly flight MH17, carrying 295 people has been shot down over a town in the east of the country.

Anton Gerashenko says on his Facebook page the plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters (33,000 feet) when it was hit Thursday by a missile fired from a Buk launcher.

A similar launcher was seen by Associated Press journalists near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne earlier Thursday.

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