OSIJEK-BARANJA COUNTY OSIJEK, Sept 17 (Hina) - The Croatian Government Commission for Missing and Detained Persons will start exhumations in the eastern Croatian region of Baranja, most probably in October, president of the commission
Ivan Grujic said in Osijek on Friday. At the talks with representatives of the Osijek association of families of missing and detained Croatian Homeland War soldiers, Grujic said that victims were buried in individual graves, adding that the beginning of exhumations would depend on the flow of already started exhumations at other locations. "We have suspicions that a certain number of persons from the Baranja region are among 20 victims recently exhumed in the Ilok region", Grujic said. The identification of the bodies is to be completed within 15 to 20 days. Another 1,685 persons in Croatia are still registered as missing, of which 168 are from Osijek-Baranja County.(hina) it
OSIJEK, Sept 17 (Hina) - The Croatian Government Commission for
Missing and Detained Persons will start exhumations in the eastern
Croatian region of Baranja, most probably in October, president of
the commission Ivan Grujic said in Osijek on Friday.
At the talks with representatives of the Osijek association of
families of missing and detained Croatian Homeland War soldiers,
Grujic said that victims were buried in individual graves, adding
that the beginning of exhumations would depend on the flow of
already started exhumations at other locations.
"We have suspicions that a certain number of persons from the
Baranja region are among 20 victims recently exhumed in the Ilok
region", Grujic said.
The identification of the bodies is to be completed within 15 to 20
days.
Another 1,685 persons in Croatia are still registered as missing,
of which 168 are from Osijek-Baranja County.
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