Belgrade - Serbian investigators said yesterday they had found 269 bodies in the biggest of five mass graves discovered since the downfall of Mr Slobodan Milosevic and believed to contain victims of the Kosovo conflict.
Excavations of the grave at a police compound in the Belgrade suburb of Batajnica was completed yesterday after more than two months of work, the Belgrade district court said in a statement. Another mass grave has been found at the same site.
Serbian authorities have so far found two mass graves in the east of the country and one in the west, all believed to contain victims of the Kosovo conflict, as well as those in Batajnica. They started exhumations in June and have reported 427 bodies recovered to date, including yesterday's figure.