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(April 9): Seven forensic police officers will leave for Kiev on Saturday to resume the search for wreckage and new evidence of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine in July last year, Bernama reported.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the team would enter the crash site in Donetsk, Ukraine on Tuesday with security forces from the Netherlands and Ukraine.

"The focus of the search is to locate remaining fragments of the aircraft, search for new evidence to assist in investigations and trace a victim who has not been found.

"MH17 is our aircraft and the police are committed in continuing investigations... and we hope that this time, with the cooperation of the Netherlands and other teams, some new findings will emerge."

The team is expected to be there for a month.

Flight MH17 carrying 283 passengers and 15 crew members was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine air space on July 17, last year.

Meanwhile, Khalid told Bernama that the Prevention of Terrorism Bill (Pota) 2015, which was approved recently by the Dewan Rakyat, would be a 'tool' in strengthening police efforts to address violence, particularly the threat of Isis.

The number of people in this country involved in militant movements was alarming even though police had taken action and were constantly monitoring the movements of those who had been and would be involved in the militant group, he was quoted as saying.

The number of Malaysians arrested on suspicion of being involved in militant activities since February 2013 now stands at 93 people, with the latest involving the arrest of a man, believed to have been en route to Syria, at the Padang Besar train station on Monday. - The Malaysian Insider

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