"U.N. group identifies 28 Cyprus war missing
NICOSIA, July 2 (Reuters) - A United Nations committee tasked with tracing people who disappeared in war-divided Cyprus decades ago has positively identified 28 bodies found in unmarked graves, it said on Monday.
The identifications are a ground-breaking first on the island, which counts more than 2,000 people missing from a Turkish invasion in 1974 triggered by a brief Greek Cypriot coup and fighting between Greek and Turkish Cypriots before that.
"The families concerned, with whom all the arrangements will be made regarding the eventual return of the remains of their loved ones, will be personally notified," the Committee for Missing Persons (CMP) said in a statement.
It did not say whether the bodies were Turkish or Greek Cypriot. They were found at various sites across the island."
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