Kosovo Police have announced that human skeletal remains were found on Tuesday in the village of Zhabar, in Mitrovica, and are suspected to belong to a person who went missing or was killed during the last war in Kosovo.
According to the police statement, the remains were recovered from the site and transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine for further procedures.
“The War Missing Persons Investigation Sector, in coordination with the Institute of Forensic Medicine and the Government Commission on Missing Persons, on 13 October 2026, carried out an order issued by the Basic Court in Pristina – Special Department for Exhumation, Autopsy and Identification – at the cemetery in the village of Shipol, in the Municipality of Mitrovica. There, they encountered human skeletal remains suspected to belong to a male Kosovo Albanian victim. The remains were recovered from the site and sent to the Institute of Forensic Medicine,” the Kosovo Police statement said.
