ZAGREB, Jan 17 (Hina) - Eleven of 15 persons have been identified with the DNA analysis of their mortal remains at Zagreb's Forensic Institute. Thirteen bodies were exhumed from mass and individual graves in Vukovar-Srijem and
Sisak-Moslavina counties, and two at a cemetery in Novi Sad.
ZAGREB, Jan 17 (Hina) - Eleven of 15 persons have been identified
with the DNA analysis of their mortal remains at Zagreb's Forensic
Institute. Thirteen bodies were exhumed from mass and individual
graves in Vukovar-Srijem and Sisak-Moslavina counties, and two at a
cemetery in Novi Sad. #L#
The head of the government Office for Missing and Detained Persons,
Ivan Grujic, said that after today's identification the number of
missing persons was reduced to 1,298.
Exhumations and the collection of DNA samples in Yugoslavia will
continue at a Belgrade cemetery in the second half of February. Some
60 persons buried as unidentified will be examined, said Grujic.
According to information from the Croatian side, about 300 Croatian
citizens were buried in Yugoslavia during the war. So far, some 40
people have been identified, and another 200 DNA samples still have
to be processed, Grujic said.
Croatia has established a so-called Croatian model of searching for
missing persons in neighbouring countries, which, with the
cooperation of Yugoslavia, has been yielding results, he added.
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