EXHUMATIONS AT VUKOVAR NEW CEMETERY TO END JUNE 26

( Editorial: --> 3474 ) VUKOVAR, June 24 (Hina) - Exhumations at the New Cemetery in Vukovar, eastern Croatia, will end this Friday, June 26. The last burial of exhumed and identified bodies will take place the day after. Exhumations of victims of the Serbian aggression on Croatia will resume in August, when exhumations will begin at a mass grave near Vukovar's City Stadium, the chairman of the Croatian Government's Commission for Detained and Missing Persons Ivan Grujic told Hina on Wednesday. The bodies of unidentified people will be taken to the Forensics Institute in Zagreb for further identification, he said. The remains of 22 adults and one child were exhumed at the New Cemetery in Vukovar today. Family members identified the remains of 14 people aged between 24 and 98, including nine men. A total of 895 victims of Serbian aggression have been exhumed from the New Cemetery since April 28, and 552 were identified. According to Commission data, the 521 persons identified by June 19 included 439 Croats, 30 Serbs, 24 Ruthenians, 12 Hungarians, seven Ukrainians, four Muslims, and one member each of Romanian, Slovak, Polish and German nationality. The nationality of one person remains unknown. Of 521 identified persons, 266 were Croatian defenders, 207 civilians and 48 civil defence members. According to Grujic, 125 were on the list of detained and missing persons. (hina) ha/mbr jn 241955 MET jun 98