Bones found at mine confirmed as human remains

Police yesterday said that a set of bones reco­vered at a wartime mine in Japan are human remains, and a Japanese group helping search for the remains said they are certain to belong to about 180 mostly Korean forced labourers who died in an accident in 1942.

Police said their examination of the three bones and a skull found this week by Korean divers at the former site of the Chosei Mine in western Yamaguchi prefecture confirmed they are all human remains.