SIBINJ TERMINATED SIBINJ, April 24 (Hina) - Exhumation teams on Tuesday terminated the excavation of a football field in the eastern Croatian village of Sibinj, located in the vicinity of a mass grave, discovered during the
construction of a local school on February 7, which contained the bodies of German soldiers executed in May 1945. A member of a commission set up to investigate the Sibinj mass grave site, Mato Tustanic, said no other remains had been discovered on the football field. The exhumation has been terminated and the remains of 48 German soldiers, found in a shallow trench near the local school building with personal items, will be buried in a common grave at Sibinj's local cemetery, Tustanic said. He added that two other locations in the area, suspected to contain the remains of German soldiers, Croatian Homeguard soldiers and other defeated World War II troops, would be exhumed as soon as possible. Those site
SIBINJ, April 24 (Hina) - Exhumation teams on Tuesday terminated
the excavation of a football field in the eastern Croatian village
of Sibinj, located in the vicinity of a mass grave, discovered
during the construction of a local school on February 7, which
contained the bodies of German soldiers executed in May 1945.
A member of a commission set up to investigate the Sibinj mass grave
site, Mato Tustanic, said no other remains had been discovered on
the football field.
The exhumation has been terminated and the remains of 48 German
soldiers, found in a shallow trench near the local school building
with personal items, will be buried in a common grave at Sibinj's
local cemetery, Tustanic said.
He added that two other locations in the area, suspected to contain
the remains of German soldiers, Croatian Homeguard soldiers and
other defeated World War II troops, would be exhumed as soon as
possible. Those sites reportedly contain the bodies of some 200
soldiers executed in late May 1945.
(hina) rml