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160 bodies exhumed from Bosnia mass grave

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Experts working at a mass grave have exhumed the remains of 160 people killed at the Bosnian Muslim enclave of Srebrenica in 1995.

Forensic teams uncovered 96 complete skeletons and 64 incomplete ones in the grave at Snagovo, close to the border with Serbia, Belgrade's Beta news agency reported Thursday.

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Prosecutors for war crimes in the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla said the skeletons were the remains of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica, tortured and killed at the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik on the Drina River.

Along with the skeletons, experts found blindfolds, many bullet shells, clothes and a number of personal documents.

The U.N. tribunal in The Hague has been seeking Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, including the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995.

More than 7,000 bodies of people, killed during the ethnic war in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1992-95, have been exhumed from mass graves.

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