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Workers discover 49 skulls in Sri Lankan construction site

Police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody said on Friday that the skulls and other bones were found during excavation work for an extension on a hospital in Matale town.

FP Archives|Dec 14, 2012, 14:39:54 IST

Colombo: Workers have discovered a possible mass grave with 49 human skulls during two weeks of excavations on a construction site in central Sri Lanka.Police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody said on Friday that the skulls and other bones were found during excavation work for an extension on a hospital in Matale town.[caption id="attachment_557354" align="alignleft" width="380"] Image for representation only. Reuters[/caption]Jayakody said other details about the bones and the burial site were immediately not known.But the People's Liberation Front, a Marxist group that carried out two armed insurrection since 1971, called for an investigation to see if the site is a mass grave where its members were buried after being killed by government soldiers.The group's clashes with government troops left heavy casualties on both sides.AP

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