Sri Lankan Ambassador in the Netherlands Buddhi Athauda says so far they have not found any Lankan passport holders in flight MH17 which crashed over Ukraine yesterday. 

However, at a news conference at Schiphol airport, Malaysia Airlines' European chief Huib Gorter said they were still trying to identify some of the passengers from flight MH17.

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He said of the passengers that have been identified there were154 Dutch nationals, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, Six Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three from the Philippines and one Canadian and all 15 of the crew were Malaysian

Other airlines have announced they are now avoiding eastern Ukraine.