![Flight MH17: Nine Britons among the dead]()
A British man travelling to an international conference on Aids aboard flight MH17 when it crashed in eastern Ukraine was a "wonderful person and a great professional", his colleagues said. Glenn Thomas, 49, a media officer at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva, was among 298 people killed when the Boeing 777-200 aircraft flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was apparently shot down over the war-torn country yesterday. Nine Britons are known to have died in the crash,...
Reported by Gloucestershire Echo 37 minutes ago.