The earthly remains of 12 Serb victims were exhumed at the cemetery in Okucani village, western Slavonia, Croatia, the documentation and information center Veritas has confirmed to Tanjug.

The exhumation of Serbs killed in the action Flash of the Croatian police and army on May 1-2, 1995, will last two days.

According to the statement of the Serbian government's Committee on Missing Persons, samples will be taken from all earthly remains for DNA identification.

According to the list delivered to Serbia by the Croatian Committee for Missing Persons in 1996, a total of 28 victims were buried in the Okucani village and four others in Donji Okucani, three of whom were exhumed in 2007 but have not yet been identified.

Veritas's data show that 283 persons of Serb nationality were killed and went missing in the action Flash, among whom are 57 women and nine children up to the age of 14.

The data also show that a total of 918 Serb victims have been exhumed in Croatia so far, including the 12 remains unearthed in Okucani, whereas over 300 of them have not been identified yet.

There are currently 624 registered graves in the territory of Croatia which have not yet been exhumed, and families are searching for another 2,126 missing Serbs, Veritas's records show.