72 VICTIMS EXHUMED FROM MASS GRAVE NEAR VUKOVAR TOWN STADIUM

( Editorial: --> 5299 ) VUKOVAR, July 2 (Hina) - Since June 29 until Thursday, exhumation teams of the Government Commission for Missing and Imprisoned Persons have exhumed all 72 bodies from a mass grave near the Vukovar town stadium. Of the exhumed bodies, 36 belong to the people who were killed and buried on that location during the Serbian aggression. The bodies were sent to the town's New Cemetery where victims are being identified, chief pathologist Drinko Balicevic said. The bodies exhumed from the mass grave near the town stadium include the bodies of a mother and her eight-year-old son buried in the same coffin. So far, 17 bodies have been identified. The exhumation and identification of victims will be completed tomorrow, Balicevic said. The bodies which cannot be identified will be sent to the Zagreb Institute for Forensics. Another two bodies were exhumed in Vukovar today, on two different locations at the old German cemetery. (hina) rml 022245 MET jul 98