Bodies confirmed as victims

Archaeologists and medical experts have confirmed the 19 bodies found at the extension project of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial to be those of massacre victims, curator Zhu Chengshan said yesterday.

It is the third time that such remains have been found at the memorial. Construction workers first found bodies in 1984 when building the memorial, and 15 years later another 208 were unearthed after workers tending the lawns found human remains, said Zhu.