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New Srebrenica mass grave 'found'

Forensic experts investigating a newly-discovered mass grave in Bosnia say they have found 12 bodies thought to be of victims of the Srebrenica massacre.

They say more bodies are expected to be found in the grave near the eastern town of Vlasenica in the coming days.

About 70 mass graves around Srebrenica have been found since the Bosnian war, and more than 5,000 victims identified.

Last week, a team from the Institute for Missing People exhumed 10 bodies of Bosniak civilians in the town of Rudo, near Vlasenica.
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