Skulls and bullets found at grave site

Brnice Dam - Searchers digging at the site of a mass grave near Srebrenica in northeastern Bosnia have found skull fragments, …

Brnice Dam - Searchers digging at the site of a mass grave near Srebrenica in northeastern Bosnia have found skull fragments, clothing and hundreds of spent bullets, the UN said yesterday. Work resumed yesterday on exhuming bodies near the Brnice dam.

The UN declared Srebrenica a safe haven during Bosnia's 43-month-long war, but it was overrun by Serb forces in July 1995. At least 8,000 people from the town are unaccounted for.

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