EXHUMATION OF VICTIMS KILLED DURING THE PAST WAR CARRIED OUT IN PRIJEDOR

An exhumation was carried out at the location of Čirkini- a hamlet located in Kozarac settlement - Prijedor municipality.  Complete skeletal remains of one and incomplete skeletal remains of another victim were unearthed.

The recovered remains shall be transported to the Krajina Identification Project Mortuary - Šejkovača located in Sanski Most for post mortem and forensic processing i.e. DNA samples shall be collected in order to determine the identity of the victims.

The exhumation process was supervised by a legal officer of the Special Department for War Crimes within the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and attended by representatives of the BiH Institute for Missing Persons, a doctor specializing in forensic medicine, workers and machinery and police officers of Prijedor PSC who secured the location.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, along with other institutions involved in the process of tracing the missing in BiH, continues its activities in the process of tracing and exhuming the missing in all parts of BiH.