Slovenian officials have discovered a mass grave of about 700 bodies, supposedly from various killings near the end of World War II.
“Based on what we've heard from local people and what we've seen so far, there could be about 700 bodies buried inside,” Marko Strovs, who heads the government's commission for exhuming mass graves, told the Associated Press.
The research team had inspected a pit in a forest near northeastern town of Prevalje to find the remains, he said.
{etRelated40737, 39854}“Some of the victims were shot; some seem to have been killed by a tool, possibly an ax,” Strovs said.
The grave contains bodies of men and women whose hands were tied behind their backs prior to killing.
