Some motorists, who took a road in the Irkutsk region, Siberia, Russia, could not believe their eyes: skulls and bones were in their way or on the side. According to the media outlet The Moscow Times, a “bone road” recently appeared in this region, because employees allegedly covered the road with sand (to fight against the freezing of the pavement) from a site near a cemetery, which dates from the Russian Civil War (1917-1923). The Interior Ministry of the Irkutsk region confirmed that these were human remains.
Human bones were discovered strewn along a highway in Siberia after a work crew reportedly used sand extracted near a cemetery as a de-icerhttps://t.co/dDRJY0eNES
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The remains of three people
According to The Guardian, the remains of at least three people were found on this “bone road”. The bones have been collected. Investigators are reportedly exploring the trail of a local contractor, who did not check the sand before spreading it on the road. The British media recalls that human remains are often found in Russia, during construction or work on the roads, especially near the battlefields of the Second World War, in the west of the country.
So, in the Kursk region, the remains of at least 10 people were discovered in 2014 during the construction of a highway. Originally, the “road of bones” refers to a Siberian highway, the Kolyma highway, built by prisoners of the Gulag under Stalin. At least 250,000 people are believed to have died during the construction of this road.
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