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Investigators prepare to exhume mass graves in Serbia

Investigators are preparing to exhume a possible mass grave site in Serbia where witnesses say the bodies of 250 ethnic Albanians are buried, prosecutors said.

The potential graves are beneath a company building and a parking lot in the town of Rudnica, a few miles north of Kosovo's border, the Office of the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor said Monday.

Prosecutors said bodies may have been originally buried in Kosovo and later exhumed and transferred to Serbia.

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