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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Vincent West

Spain exhumes 53 bodies from Franco dictatorship's shallow graves

Roses stand near volunteers and members of Aranzadi Science Society gathering the remains of 53 Republican prisoners that died in a Francoist prison in 1941, in the Basque town of Orduna, Spain, December 11, 2022. REUTERS/Vincent West

Forensic archaeologists have exhumed 53 bodies from shallow graves in the Basque town of Orduna that were dug in 1941, as part of a process of healing the country's wounds from the Franco dictatorship era.

The investigators will try to identify the remains and return them to relatives so that they can be formally buried, Spanish pathologist Francisco Etxeberria told Reuters on Sunday.

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