One body per grave found at trafficking camps

The 139 graves uncovered near people-smuggling camps in northern Malaysia appear to hold only one body each, Malaysia's deputy home minister said on Thursday, after earlier suspicions that they could contain multiple corpses of trafficked migrants.

"There is no mass grave. This is one person, one grave," Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said at a news conference near the sites, adding that the bodies had been buried with "proper white wrapping" and ceremonial camphor had been used.

"The reason for the exhumation is to see whether a crime has been committed, violence was made against those people," he said.