Mysterious skeletons, skulls found under Afghanistan's presidential palace

Kabul: Afghanistan’s president’s palace says skulls and bones belonging to two bodies have been uncovered beneath a kitchen during renovation work on the palace grounds. [caption id=“attachment_2386488” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File photo of Ashraf Ghani. Reuters[/caption] The gender, cause of death and identity of the skeletons are a mystery. Tuesday’s palace statement says the remains have been sent for forensic examination. It also says that a commission, including representatives of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and Physicians for Human Rights, has been set up to identify the bodies. Afghanistan has had a long history of unearthing mass graves of unidentified victims of war, many linked to former warlords. In 2002, around 2,000 bodies were found in a mass grave in northern Afghanistan, believed to be Taliban fighters killed after being taken prisoner during fighting that overturned their six-year regime. AP