SEVEN BODIES FOUND IN NEGOSLAVCI MASS GRAVE

NEGOSLAVCI, Sept 24 (Hina) - Government teams of experts have found the remains of seven people after they started exhuming bodies from a mass grave at Negoslavci near the eastern town of Vukovar on Tuesday. #L# Colonel Ivan Grujic, head of the government office for detainees and missing persons, said on Wednesday that the persons in question were most probably prisoners from Negoslavci killed before the fall of Vukovar in November 1991. All seven victims, including several women, were dressed in civilian clothes, he said, adding that gunshot wounds were found on them. Grujic said that five mass graves containing more than 40 victims had been found in an area between Negoslavci and Berak, which is just three kilometres away. The Negoslavci mass grave is the 50th mass grave found in Vukovar county and the 137th in Croatia. It was discovered by employees of the government office for detainees following a tip from Serbs, who make up a majority in Negoslavci. (hina) vm