The World - News from Aug. 3, 1986
Western journalists on a visit to a cemetery near Moscow discovered the recently dug graves of two more victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The two graves, which were found in a special plot that contains most of the other victims of history’s worst nuclear power plant accident, bear dates after the last official announcement on the death toll. The ruling Politburo said July 19 that 28 had died as a result of the Chernobyl accident. There has been no official confirmation of the higher death toll.
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