15 bodies found in Slavonia grave

Zagreb - A Croatian forensic team has unearthed 15 bodies from a mass grave on a farm in eastern Slavonia, believed to contain…

Zagreb - A Croatian forensic team has unearthed 15 bodies from a mass grave on a farm in eastern Slavonia, believed to contain several dozen civilians killed when rebel Serbs captured the city of Vukovar in 1991.

Col Ivan Grujic, head of the state office for missing persons, said the bodies, found near the port of Vukovar, looked like those of civilians.

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