WWII-era mass grave found in Slovenia

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Source: AFP/The Australian

A MASS grave in Slovenia believed to hold up to 300 victims killed after World War II by the former communist regime has been discovered in the country's east.

“We've found the mummified remains of between 200 and 300 people,” Marko Strovs, head of the government's military graves department, told journalists.

He added the victims appeared to be “killed with gas” since there were no visible signs of wounds from firearms.

Investigators and historians on Tuesday removed concrete walls built after World War II to close off the Huda Jama cave near Lasko, some 90 km east of the capital Ljubljana. They then discovered the remains.

The investigation of the Huda Jama cave started last August as part of a long-running probe of more than 500 suspected mass graves throughout Slovenia.

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