“Not an isolated incident”: PM Justin Trudeau on mass indigenous student grave found in Canada

Plans are underway to bring in forensics experts to identify and repatriate the remains of the children found buried on the Kamloops site.

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday it is not an isolated incident that over . Mr. Trudeau’s comments come as Indigenous leaders are calling for an examination of every former residential school site — institutions that held children taken from families across the nation. Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation in British Columbia said the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were confirmed this month with the help of ground-penetrating radar. She described the discovery as “an unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented” at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, the largest such school in the country.