The bodies recovered from the plane — which was carrying 283 passengers and 15 crew members, all of whom were killed — will stay in refrigerated train cars in the insurgent-occupied town of Torez until experts from the International Civil Aviation Organization arrive, Alexander Borodai said, the Associated Press reports. Borodai is the leader of a self-proclaimed, pro-Moscow “People’s Republic” in eastern Ukraine…

A spokeswoman for Ukraine’s government said rebels forced emergency teams to give up the bodies recovered at the crash site without revealing where they were taking the corpses. Associated Press journalists had previously reported seeing bodies in bags piled together in the heat on Saturday.