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The primary site was located in al-Qutayfah, approximately 37 km (23 mi) north of Damascus, with additional mass graves discovered throughout the southern Damascus countryside and in southern Syria. The primary al-Qutayfah site was predicted by investigators to contain the human remains of at least 100,000 people who had been systematically and ...
Alleged mass graves near Mariupol have been revealed through satellite images. The mass grave site could contain as many as 9,000 bodies, Ukrainian officials say.
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution , [ 1 ] although an exact definition is not unanimously agreed upon.
There are other mass graves in Uman, Bila Tserkva, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr. [11] 9,432 corpses were exhumed following the Vinnytsia massacre. [12] As in Russia and elsewhere, these sites keep appearing, e.g. a mass grave found in 2002 under the floor of a Ukrainian monastery. [13]
New satellite images have revealed mass graves being assembled for the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey.. On 6 February, a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks struck ...
Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date one mass grave to between the late 1400s and early 1600s, and found shards of pottery and coins dating from the later end of that range at the site.
The first indication there may be mass graves in the area came from a tip from local residents searching for missing relatives. [3] Karla Quintana, the head of the National Search Commission stated that because the location was in a neighborhood, "the people [had to have] known]" that there were graves being dug.
ARBOLILLO, Mexico (AP) — A day after authorities in the Mexican state of Veracruz announced the recovery of at least 166 skulls in mass clandestine graves, journalists who arrived at the site ...