Russian Investigators Open Probe Into Grave Of Civilian Victims Of WWII
Umer Jamshaid 2 months ago Mon 30th November 2020 | 09:29 PM

The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case over a recently discovered burial site with bodies of civilians killed during World War II in Leningrad region
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 30th November, 2020) The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case over a recently discovered burial site with bodies of civilians killed during World War II in Leningrad region.
According to the investigators, bodies of at least four people were found in a village in the northwest of Russia.
One of the victims was a child.
Forensics have shown that the remains belong to people killed during the war, the investigators said.
Archives suggest that the place where the remains were discovered was the site of a mass shooting of civilians during the advance of the Nazi forces upon St. Petersburg (called Leningrad at the time) in 1941.
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