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KYIV. Oct 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The exhumation procedures on the largest burial site in Lyman, Donetsk region, have been completed, the police found the bodies of 111 civilians and 35 military there, the National Police of Ukraine said on the Telegram channel on Thursday.
In addition, exhumation of separate improvised graves continues.
"The bodies of 166 people, including five children, were exhumed in the de-occupied territories in the northern part of Donetsk region," the police said.
Investigative procedures were finished on the cemetery in Lyman, where two mass burial sites were discovered after the town was liberated from the Russian occupation. Civilians were buries at the first site and Ukrainian defenders – at the second one. The deceased were buried in trenches, a part of graves have no names.
Among the bodies exhumed in Lyman and in the neighborhood, there were 85 men, 66 women, five children, and gender of ten more people is yet to be identified.
"People died of mine-blast and shrapnel wounds as a result of Russian shelling attacks, as well as from natural causes. There are bodies with signs of violent death. To identify the deceased, the police in Donetsk region asks close relatives to contact the police and provide them with biological samples for expertise," the National Police said.