REMAINS OF 17 CROATIAN SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS EXHUMED IN BOGDANOVCI ( Editorial: --> 1062 )

( Editorial: --> 1062 ) VUKOVAR, Nov 15 (Hina) - Experts on Friday exhumed the remains of 17 Croatian soldiers and civilians from three mass graves and several individual graves in Bogdanovci, a devastated village near Vukovar, in Croatia's eastern UN-administered region. The soldiers and civilians had been killed during the defense and occupation of the village in the autumn of 1991, head of the Croatian government Commission for Imprisoned and Missing Persons, Lt, Col. Ivan Grujic said on Saturday. Family members had identified ten of the victims, and the rest had been transported to Zagreb for identification, Grujic said. Exhumation was being carried out at the moment in Bogdanovci, Petrovci and Ernestinovo, and should soon begin in Vukovar, he added. (hina) lm 151119 MET nov 97