REMAINS OF 68 VICTIMS EXHUMED FROM LOVAS MASS GRAVE

VUKOVAR/ZAGREB, June 10 (Hina) - Experts of Croatian Government's commission for detainees and missing persons exhumed a total of 68 bodies from a mass grave in Lovas, eastern Slavonia, a spokesman for the UNTAES, Philip Arnold, said on Tuesday. The exhumation began on June 2, and all bodies were taken on June 8 to the forensic medicine and crime investigation department of Zagreb's Faculty of Medicine for identification of victims. The exhumation and identification of Lovas mass grave victims is being observed by the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal experts. A forensic specialist of Zagreb's Faculty, Davor Strinovic, said on Tuesday that an autopsy on victims would start next Monday. Mostly civilians, Croatians, killed in this eastern Slavonian village between 10 and 18 October 1991, were buried in that mass grave. (hina) mm mš 101453 MET jun 97