67 bodies secretly exhumed from NM grave
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-04-09 16:54

This image provided by the US Bureau of Reclamation shows holes where several graves were exhumed by the bureau at the Fort Craig cemetery, located 30 miles south of Socorro, N.M., in October 2007. Federal archaeologists have dug up the remains of dozens of soldiers and children near a Civil War-era fort after an informant tipped them off about widespread grave-looting. The exhumations, conducted from August to October, also found scores of empty graves and determined 20 had been looted. The government kept its exhumation of the unmarked cemetery near the historic New Mexico fort out of the public's eye for months to prevent more thefts. [Agencies]
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