The aunt of three Perth children killed on flight MH17 say she does not know how their parents will "pull through" the tragedy that claimed the lives of their "angelic" children.
Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin, aged 12, 10 and 8 respectively, died with their grandfather Nick Norris while on board the Malaysian Airlines jet that was shot down over Ukraine.
The children's aunt and Mr Norris's daughter Kirstin Norris, 27, said her family was trying to come to terms with the "horrible, horrible, horrible situation".
She said the children's parents Rin and Tony were still holidaying overseas when the plane came down.
"They don't want to talk to anyone still, we've spoken to them very briefly," she said.
"I broke the news to them and I could just hear them crying in the background.
"They've just sent text messages saying 'we don't know what to say, we can't talk to anyone', so we're just waiting until they get home."
Ms Norris said she does not know what is going to happen to the family now.
"I hope that Rin and Tony are strong enough to pull through this but I don't know how they're going to do it," she said.
"It's a horrible, horrible, horrible situation."
Ms Norris said her father had been holidaying with Mo, Evie, Otis and their parents in Europe.
"The trip had been arranged for quite a long time, we were actually quite lucky to be honest [because] Mum was supposed to be on the trip as well but she couldn't get out of work," she said.
"The plan was just that they [the family] were having an extended holiday and the kids could obviously only come for the school holiday period so that's when Dad offered to take them over and [bring] them back so Rin and Mas [Tony] could spend a little more time away.
"He really loved spending time with his grandkids."
Ms Norris described the children as "just angelic, just beautiful, beautiful children".
Family mourn for futures of 'beautiful, beautiful children'"I think one of the most unfortunate things is that they were really just starting to become the people that they were going to be," she said.
She said Mo attended Perth's Scotch College and was excelling academically.
"Mo was always going to be a really bright guy, he was very, very good at school, very clever," she said.
"He did like his AFL as well so maybe he might have got a career in that, but I think more likely he was just going to be a very, very clever and quite a handsome young man I think."
Evie and Otis both attended Deanmore Primary School and loved to play at the beach.
"Evie was amazing, the most charismatic, beautiful young girl," Ms Norris said.
"She's incredible and the older and older she got, the more amazing she got.
"Otis was the strangest little kid but it was brilliant; he didn't ever care what anybody thought of him.
"He'd always be looking around on the floor for new bugs that he could add to his collection; he loved nature.
"We were just starting to hypothesise what they were going to be when the grow up and it's just really sad that that's not going to happen any more."
Brack Norris, 24, described his father Nick as a mentor and a "great family man".
"I loved the guy unconditionally, he was such a good man.
"Without a doubt he loved his family, everybody in it and he also had so many friends.
"Everybody loved him so much."
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