The department of forensic medicine within the EU law mission EULEX said it had found mortal remains buried in a village cemetery of Llaushe/Lausa in Skenderaj/Srbica municipality.

A resident of the village apparently approached the forensics team last December when they were on a visit to another suspected grave in the area of this village.

The resident told the department of a possible burial location in the village cemetery, indicating an area of seven to eight square meters, claiming that four bodies were buried at the location in March 1999.

“So far we have exhumed three bodies in this location. The team will continue the work and see what else is there,” Arsim Gerxhaliu, director of Kosovo’s department of forensic medicine, told BIRN.

The Kosovo authorities last week said they were commencing searches in 20 locations in Kosovo that they suspect contain mass graves.

A total of 69 missing persons from the Kosovo war were identified in 2014. Another 1,653 people remain unaccounted for.