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207 bodies exhumed from Bosnian mass grave

More than 200 bodies have been exhumed from a mass grave near the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

Mr Murat Hurtic, a member of the Muslim-led state Commission for Missing Persons, confirmed that the bodies had been found following a two-week exhumation on the site.

Another grave, believed to contain over 100 bodies, has also been discovered in the area.

More than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed after Srebrenica fell to Bosnian Serb forces in 1995.

The Bosnian Serb wartime leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his army chief have both been indicted for war crimes and genocide - including the Srebrenica massacres, by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Last year, the UN tribunal sentenced Bosnian Serb general, Radoslav Krstic, to 46 years in jail on charges of genocide over the massacres.