Mass graves found near rail tracks

CZESTOCHOWA, Poland, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Exhumation of three World War II-era mass graves at a railway station in Czestochowa, Poland, is to resume in 2010 at winter's end, authorities said.

So far, the remains of eight people have been exhumed near the tracks at the Czestochowa-Stradom railway station, though the mass graves could hold the remains of as many as 2,000 people, prosecutors from the Institute of National Remembrance said Friday.

The graves likely contain victims from World War II, including Polish soldiers, Jews from concentration camps, and Russian and German prisoners of war who died during transport, Polish Radio reported Saturday.

Exhumation is to resume in the spring when it is easier to work the ground, authorities said.