shakahola mass graves Stories

Since the exhumation of 429 bodies from the Chakama forest, the government has collected 336 DNA samples. However, only 66 bodies have been positively...

It said the authorities were conducting forensic tests to understand the cause of their deaths and had detained three suspects.

Since the inception of the first phase in April last year, a total of 446 bodies have been exhumed.

The discovery from three gravesites raised the number of bodies to 436 since the first phase of exhumations began last April.