Spain to exhume fascist movement founder’s body from Madrid mausoleum
Madrid, Spain Reuters Spain on Monday will dig up the body of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the fascist Falange movement that supported the Francoist regime, and remove it from a mausoleum carved into a mountainside near Madrid. Primo de Rivera’s exhumation, which follows the 2019 removal of the remains of dictator Francisco […]
Number of bodies exhumed from suspected Kenyan cult graves jumps to 47
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Kenyan police have now exhumed the bodies of 47 people thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death. Police near the coastal town of Malindi started exhuming bodies on Friday from the Shakahola forest. Kenya police officers stand guard […]
Search for remains of Indigenous children killed in Guatemala massacre blocked by residents
Guatemala City, Guatemala Reuters Residents of a Mayan community in Guatemala prevented experts on Tuesday from beginning to exhume the remains of more than 100 children believed to have been buried clandestinely in a former military garrison during the country’s civil war in the 1980s. The search efforts in the village of Chiul, more than […]