Crime against humanity; Ukraine

Artillery fire could be heard in the near distance from the crash scene, where a team of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe gained access Saturday for a second day.

OSCE spokesman Michael Bociurkiw, briefing reporters from the scene, said the observers were still being denied access to certain areas but that their movements were freer than the previous day, when they were met with hostility by rebels.

He said that experts now have professional body bags and are gathering body parts in them. The bags are being left by the road for collection.

The fields where the plane came down Thursday, near the town of Torez, are in a volatile rebel-controlled area of the eastern Donetsk region, making access to the scattered debris and body parts difficult.

The United States said a surface-to-air missile, possibly fired by pro-Russian rebels, took down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The plane, which had 298 people aboard from 11 nations, was traveling from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.

Since the crash, the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia rebels have traded bitter accusations over who was responsible and what has been done since.

A rebel leader denied claims Saturday by the Ukrainian government that the rebels had already removed 38 bodies from the scene and taken them to a morgue in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

Alexander Borodai, Prime Minister of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, told a news conference in Donetsk that the rebels had not removed any bodies from the crash site, and that they are waiting for international experts to act.

"There is even a house where a body fell, the landlord asked us to remove and we haven't because we are not allowed to move anything," he said.

An international organization at the scene Friday said it appeared that the bodies have not been tampered with.