ZAGREB, May 12 (Hina) - The remains of eight Croatian soldiers and civilians, exhumed form mass and individual graves in Vukovar-Sirmium, Sisak-Moslavina and Dubrovnik counties and whose bodies were transferred from Novi Sad (Serbia),
were identified at the Forensic Institute in Zagreb on Monday.
ZAGREB, May 12 (Hina) - The remains of eight Croatian soldiers and
civilians, exhumed form mass and individual graves in Vukovar-
Sirmium, Sisak-Moslavina and Dubrovnik counties and whose bodies
were transferred from Novi Sad (Serbia), were identified at the
Forensic Institute in Zagreb on Monday. #L#
The remains of identified Aleksandar Laba (b. 1970) and Mijo Balic
(b. 1953) were unearthed at the New Cemetery in Vukovar.
The remains of Antun Kardas (1931), Davor Pavlovic (1960) and
Zvonko Govorcinovic (1939) were exhumed from a mass grave in the
Sisak area. The body of Janko Sutalo (1939) was found in the
Dubrovnik area. The remains of Iles Lukac (1945) and Ana Culina
(1942) were transferred from Novi Sad.
The head of the Forensic Institute in Zagreb, Milovan Kubat, said
this institution had signed a contract with an American company a
few days ago thus becoming, together with the laboratory of the
Berlin police, the only reference centre of this kind in Europe.
Croatia is still searching for 1,275 persons who went missing
during the Homeland Defence War. So far, 3,398 victims have been
exhumed, and 2,812 have been identified, the head of the
government's office for missing and detained persons, Lieutenant
Colonel Ivan Grujic said.
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