Four bodies found on farm in Croatia

Four bodies found on farm in Croatia

The remains, recovered on Tuesday while workers were digging irrigation canals on Sopot farm near Vinkovci, were found in an area that did not see any war operations during the 1991-1992 war in Croatia.

The medical examiner has confirmed that the victims’ hands were not tied, and that they were aged between 20 and 55 at the time of their deaths.

“Three of them definitely sustained gunshot wounds to the head, while we can’t rule that out concerning the fourth,” Vinkovci district court judge Ante Željko told journalists Wednesday.

Croatian media, meanwhile, reported that the clothes found on the victims indicated the four were most likely members of Serb forces, while two victims had the trousers normally worn by Serbian police.

A lighter with the inscription, “Cement factory Beočin” was found on one of the victims, giving way to speculation that he may have come from that part of Serbia.

Two of the four men have been identified, but their names have not yet been made public.

It is now up to the prosecution in Zagreb to decide whether to investigate the case.

The Croatian government commission for missing persons and prisoners of war has already declared it had no jurisdiction in the case, “since the bodies were recovered in an area where no war operations took place.”