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Spanish excavators have uncovered the remains

of up to 150 people in two mass graves in the

northern village of Belchite.

Spanish authorities have

uncovered two graves containing

the bodies of dozens of victims

from the Civil War.

The graves were found after

archaeological excavations at

a cemetery in Belchite, in the

northern province of Zaragoza.

The site was one of the

bloodiest battlefields during Copyright GERARD JULIEN/AFP/FILE

the Spanish Civil War

between 1936 and 1939. Excavation work on the graves indicates that the victims
suffered “significant violence” before their execution.

Officials say fifteen bodies have Most of the skeletal remains found belonged to men and

been found in one of the graves, and women between the ages of 20 and 40 years old.

estimate that the remains of around Anthropologist José Ignacio Lorenzo has described the

150 people could be buried there.
discovery as “very important” and said “meticulous”

work would be carried out to identify the victims.
A total of 400 people from Belchite

and the surrounding area were According to experts and memory associations, an

killed in the town during the war estimated 130,000 people are buried in unidentified

following the 1936 coup, led by mass graves throughout Spain, 90,000 of whom were

former dictator Francisco Franco. shot during the civil war and 40,000 in the post-war
period.

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