Mass Grave May Contain as Many as 250 Victims

Forensic experts are exhuming the contents of a mass grave that appears to hold the remains of hundreds of people slain during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, officials said.

The dismembered bodies are believed to be those of Muslims slain in the eastern town of Srebrenica. They were found a few miles from the town, said Murat Hurtic, a member of the Muslim Commission for Missing Persons. The grave may contain as many as 250 people, Hurtic said.

Srebrenica was declared a U.N. “safe haven” toward the end of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, and thousands of Muslims flocked there to escape Bosnian Serb attacks. But Serb troops later overran the town, rounding up and executing as many as 8,000 men and boys.