By Sally Lee and Australian Associated Press Australian police today admitted that it may be impossible to recover the bodies of all 298 victims as intense fighting forced international investigators back from the crash site for a second time. The delegation of Australian and Dutch police and forensic experts stopped in Shakhtarsk, a town around 20 miles from the fields where the aircraft was downed, amid sounds of explosions. A high-rise apartment block in the town was hit by at least two rounds of artillery, according to reports and dozens of families living in the area fled. Pro-Russian rebels admitted they had lost control of part of the crash site.
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Dutch and Australian investigators abandoned attempts reach crash site on Monday
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Explosions in nearby Shakhtarsk forced them to turn back for second day
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Australian Federal Police deputy commissioner Andrew Colvin says there is a possibility they won't get to the crash site in the near future
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Fighting has intensified at both crash site and in the surrounding area
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At least eight civilians killed by fighting in two rebel-held cities today alone
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Government troops hoping to take back parts of east Ukraine from rebels
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But rebels say offensive is to stop evidence implicating Kiev being found
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