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Police exhume more than 120 bodies in liberated territories of Donetsk region
KYIV. Oct 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The police of Donetsk region have exhumed more than 120 bodies of the deceased in the de-occupied territories of the region, the Interior Ministry of Ukraine said on its website on Wednesday.
Of the 120 deceased, 64 are civilians – 32 men, 29 women, the gender of three more people has not been identified yet.
The police found a total of 35 burial sites in the liberated residential areas. Three of them as mass graves: one grave in Sviatohirsk with seven people (six women and one man) buried there and two in Lyman – the first one is a mass grave of several dozens of Ukrainian servicemen and the second one if a mass burial site of more than 100 of civilians. Whole families were buried.
"Excavations on the mass burial sites Lyman continue. The police have exhumed the bodies of 56 people over a week of hard work. Measures are being taken to identify the deceased and found out the reasons for their death," the police said.
Of these 56 deceased, 22 are civilians and 34 are military. The work on the burial site continues uninterrupted, despite the weather. Investigative proceedings are carried out simultaneously at both locations.
"The police are looking for signs of both natural death and violent actions. The investigation will establish if injuries were received as a result of shelling or torture. The bodies have been sent for examination," the National Police said.
