BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina - Forensic experts said Thursday they had exhumed six bodies from a mass grave in northeast Bosnia that is believed to contain over one hundred bodies of victims of a 1995 massacre.
"We believe that this mass grave contains remains of people from Srebrenica," Murat Hurtic of the Muslim-led Commission for the Missing told Bosnian Serb television.
"According to our calculations, we expect to find over one hundred bodies," he said.
The grave was found in the village of Liplje near the town of Zvornik. According to Hurtic, the victims were detained by Bosnian Serb forces in a school in the area before being executed there. Plastic ropes used to tie them were also found in the grave.
Bosnian Serb forces overrun the UN-protected Muslim enclave of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995 summarily killing some 8,000 men and boys.
Earlier Thursday, an official said the remains of 15 people including two children had been exhumed from two other graves in central Bosnia.
"We found two mass graves with the remains of at least 15 people" at Zlatarice near the central town of Bugojno, said Marko Jurisic, a representative of the Muslim-Croat commission for missing people.
One grave contained the remains of at least 11 people, including two children aged four and 14, and the other contained at least four bodies.
The other site was believed to be a so-called secondary grave as the bodies bore marks indicating they had been moved by bulldozers.
The remains have yet to be identified.
The area of Bugojno was controlled by Muslim troops including foreign Arab jihadists during Bosnia's 1992-1995 inter-ethnic war.
Forensic experts are still searching for the bodies of some 35 ethnic Croat civilians from the Bugojno area, who are believed to have been killed by the foreign troops.
Some 18,000 victims of executions during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, most of them Muslims, have been exhumed in the past decade from more than 360 mass graves found throughout the Balkan country.
05/19/2005 19:24 GMT