Two more plane will bring a further 74 victims of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 back from Ukraine on Friday.

One of the planes will be accompanied by foreign minister Frans Timmermans and his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop who have been visiting officials in Ukraine for the past two days.

On Thursday, 74 more coffins arrived at the Eindhoven airbase and were received in the same somber ceremony as on Wednesday, when the first 40 bodies were brought back. This includes a minutes silence for the dead.

All the bodies, in simple wooden coffins, are being brought in a procession of hearses to an army barracks in Hilversum to be identified. According to RTL news, a further flight, containing an unknown number of bodies, will be made on Saturday.

In total, 298 people were killed when the Boeing 777 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was brought down last week. Of them, 194 had Dutch nationality.