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66 Srebrenica victims exhumed in Bosnia

Forensic experts say they have exhumed 66 Srebrenica massacre victims from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia.

Murat Hurtic, the head of the forensic team, says the last bodies were taken out Friday. The team exhumed two complete and 64 incomplete skeletons.

An ID card found in the grave supports initial information that the bodies were of Muslim men from Srebrenica who were killed in the July 1995 massacre.

Read entire article at CNN