Bosnia's biggest mass grave yields over thousand bodies

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SARAJEVO (AFP) — Forensic teams have completed excavating the biggest mass grave from Bosnia's 1992-1995 war containing the skeletons of more than 1,000 Srebrenica massacre victims, an official said.

"We have uncovered 1,153 skeletons, of which 144 were complete while 1,009 were dismembered," a member of the Bosnian forensic team, Murat Hurtic, told AFP Thursday.

The remains were recovered from the grave located in Kamenica village near the town of Zvornik in eastern Bosnia.

"Kamenica is the biggest mass grave" found since Bosnia's three-and-a-half year war, said Hurtic, adding it contained almost twice as many victims as the nearby Crni Vrh burial site.

"We found many gunshot wounds, many broken bones and skulls, of whom some could have been broken...