More Than 500 Bodies Found in 2 Graves
The bodies of more than 500 victims of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war have been unearthed at two mass grave sites in the east and northwest, Bosnian Muslim forensic experts said.
Jasmin Odobasic, an official from the Commission for Missing Persons, said 301 bodies had been exhumed so far from a former iron mine near the northwestern town of Ljubija.
An additional 224 bodies were exhumed at the Cancari Road grave in eastern Bosnia where work is now finished, experts said.
Documents found with the bodies in the former mine indicated that the victims were Muslims from the northwestern Prijedor area who went missing in 1992, and that most of them were men.
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