WORKERS FIND UNIDENTIFIED CORPSE WHILE CLEANING VUKOVAR CEMETERY OF MINES

OF MINES ( Vidi vijest: 6170 ) VUKOVAR, Oct 27 (Hina) - Workers cleaning a Vukovar Catholic cemetry of mines, found a corpse in an open crypt on Monday. It seems that the person whose corpse was found, was not buried in the usual manner. The workers notified Vukovar local authorities and UN Transitional Administration for eastern Croatia (UNTAES) of this event. Representatives of the German de-mining company "Gerber", workers of which are cleaning the cemetery of mines to enable displaced Vukovar citizens to visit it on All Saints' Day (November 1), told Hina that the corpse would remain in the grave until people, authorised by the Croatian Government, exhume it. Following this event, the head of the government commission for the detained and missing, Ivan Grujic, on Monday said to Hina that it was known that there were victims buried at the Catholic cemetery and other parts of Vukovar that should be exhumed. Grujic added that the bodies would not be exhumed from that cemetery now, and explained that according to procedures, every body found before the organised unearthing should be protected at the spot where it was found, and it must not be dug up before authorised experts carry out an on-the-spot investigation and exhumation. The sex of the corpse found on Monday could not be found out neither can it be established whether that person wore a military uniform or civilian clothes. (hina) jn mš 271952 MET oct 97