Courts have granted permission for the excavation of a mass grave in Sampur, the seventh found in the country, under Army supervision.
It is difficult to ascertain if the three men, whose skeletal remains were found there, died of natural causes, JMO Nirmal Borukgama informed Mutur magistrate Tasneem Fawsan on 06 August.
A team from the British deminer MAG stumbled on the skeletons at the beach area on 20 July.
The National Demining Action Centre informed the magistrate it has to be excavated under the guidance of the Army as mines still remain in the area.
The case will be taken up again on 26 August.
Correspondents report documents submitted to courts showed there was no evidence to claim a cemetery existed at the site, a state-land.
It is located near a children’s park and a memorial built to the memory of 57 civilians shot, hacked and burnt to death, allegedly by the Army, on 07 July 1990.