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Bangladesh begins exhuming mass grave from 2024 uprising

A clash erupts between students of Dhaka College and City College at Dhaka's Science Lab intersection in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November 20, 2024. [AFP]

Bangladeshi police began exhuming on Sunday a mass grave believed to contain around 114 unidentified victims of a mass uprising that toppled autocratic former prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year.

The UN-supported effort is being advised by Argentine forensic anthropologist Luis Fondebrider, who has led recovery and identification missions at mass graves worldwide for decades.

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