SIBINJ SIBINJ, April 6 (Hina) - Forty-eight human skeletons, belonging to German soldiers, were discovered in a World War II mass grave in Sibinj near Slavonski Brod after a five-day exhumation, it was said at a news conference in
Sibinj on Friday. The mass grave was discovered while construction workers were digging the foundations for a school gym. It cannot be stated with certainty how long the exhumation works will last. According to Pozega County Court investigating judge Nenad Vlasic, the number of victims would probably not be final as several skeletons had been discovered in the foundations of the local school. Exhumation teams have discovered the skeletons of young men at a site only a metre away from the school foundations, buried some 40-80 centimetres deep in the ground. The skeletons belong to members of the German army, German and Austrian soldiers, and this has been established on the basis of
SIBINJ, April 6 (Hina) - Forty-eight human skeletons, belonging to
German soldiers, were discovered in a World War II mass grave in
Sibinj near Slavonski Brod after a five-day exhumation, it was said
at a news conference in Sibinj on Friday.
The mass grave was discovered while construction workers were
digging the foundations for a school gym. It cannot be stated with
certainty how long the exhumation works will last.
According to Pozega County Court investigating judge Nenad Vlasic,
the number of victims would probably not be final as several
skeletons had been discovered in the foundations of the local
school.
Exhumation teams have discovered the skeletons of young men at a
site only a metre away from the school foundations, buried some 40-
80 centimetres deep in the ground.
The skeletons belong to members of the German army, German and
Austrian soldiers, and this has been established on the basis of
personal items found near the skeletons, said pathologist Mato
Vukelic.
Rudolf Macek, State Prosecutor for Pozega, told reporters an
investigation would most probably be launched in the case, once the
police pressed charges against, for the time being, unidentified
perpetrators.
According to Sibinj municipal head Josip Jakacic, the German
Embassy has been inquiring about the Sibinj execution site from May
1945, and representatives from the embassy are expected to visit
Sibinj next week.
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