DNA SAMPLING OF REMAINS FOUND AT LAV CEMETERY SET FOR OCTOBER 29

SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 14 /SRNA/ - The forensic examination of the remains of at least seven people found in August at Sarajevo's Lav Cemetery has been scheduled for Thursday, October 29, SRNA was told at the BiH Missing Persons Institute.

Under an order from the BiH Prosecutor's Office, the examination and collection of bone samples will be carried out at the Sveti Marko morgue in Miljevići, Istočno Novo Sarajevo.

The bone samples will then be forwarded to the International Commission on Missing Persons, where DNA analysis will be carried out in its laboratory.

The remains of several people were found at Lav Cemetery in Sarajevo on August 5 and 6 in unmarked graves and in areas between burial plots.

The remains were transferred to the memorial ossuary in Istočno Sarajevo, where the forensic examination is to be conducted.

The exhumation was led by an investigator from the BiH Prosecutor's Office Special Department for War Crimes under an order from the prosecutor handling the case.

A forensic pathologist, representatives of the BiH Missing Persons Institute, workers and machinery, as well as members of the Sarajevo Canton Interior Ministry who secured the site, also took part in the exhumation.

The examination and collection of bone samples are scheduled for Thursday, October 29, at 11:00 a.m. The Institute declined to comment on the victims' ethnicity.

Sarajevo's Lav Cemetery has become synonymous with the suffering of Serbs in Sarajevo during the last war in BiH.