Bodies found in Greece mass grave had "bullets in the heads," officials say

Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull.

They turned off the motorized equipment and set to work with pickaxes and shovels. The crew found two skeletons, then more. By March, 33 sets of bones lay in a tight cluster of unmarked burial pits in the shadow of a Byzantine fortress.

"We found many bullets in the heads, the skulls," supervising engineer Haris Charismiadis said, standing on earth overturned by four months of digging.