Heads, trunks of war prisoners in the 1940s dug at City Park in Greece

Local officials said on Saturday that another series of unique graves – this person who contains 14 individuals from the era of the Civil War in Greece – were dug in a garden in a suburb near the northern Greek city of Thissalonik.

As in the previous distress A group of unique burial digging The bodies were excavated earlier this year in Napolis Seikis, and they belong to the prisoners who were held in a nearby Byzantine castle. The prisoners, the alleged Communists and sympathizers, were executed between 1946 and 1953, according to historians.

Yedi Kole, also known as the Greek name Eptapyrgio (“Seven Towers”) was a prison that was tortured and executed during the Civil War in Greece 1946-1949 and then immediately after.

The new burial digging was detected at the site of a municipal garden subject to renewal, including installing new seats. Harris Karismis, the engineer supervising the Park project, told Associated Press that the graves were not far from the surface.

The renewal project is currently a priority for the local mayor Simos Danyilidis. “We insisted on continuing to dig for graves,” he said. Cariesidis, who said that most of the current batch of bodies were found during the past week, are sure that there are more people buried nearby, including, most likely, under the street runway adjacent to the garden. The world of archeology helps in drilling.

In contrast to I found 33 bodies Earlier this year, which was lying side by side, the recently found bodies stumbled, as if randomly thrown, hurriedly, in a pile. The stem and heads are separated.

previously, Cariesidis said The teams revealed the death victims with “many bullets in the heads, skulls.” The elements with corpses – women’s shoes, handbag, loop – glimpses of life brief.

When Yedi Kole prisoners were executed, their families were not often notified and were unable to recover their bodies. Some discovered the fate of their loved ones from the newspapers – one family happened to the news while they were on the bus they took to prison to bring their relative from new clothes.

Relatives of the perpetrators tested the DNA tests to ensure the identity of the bodies that were found. The test has not started yet.

Tens of thousands died in battles during the early Cold War between government forces backed by Western and left -wing rebels, brutal struggle with assassinations, kidnapping children and collective displacement. CBS News journalist George PolkWho had portrayed the Greek Greek government as corrupt, was Among those who were killed During the war.

in statement Earlier this year, the city said that the efforts made to find other mass graves will continue “so that all the skeletons of people who lost their lives in this way are found during the dark years of the civil war and have not traditionally given honor to the dead.”