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Human skulls and bones, believed to be several centuries old, were found on Friday, 14 August, in western Mizoram's Mamit district, officials said.
Mamit District Deputy Commissioner Lalrozama said that these human skulls and bones were found on Friday evening while clearing the debris of a landslide from a road.
"After collecting all the skulls and bones, they would be sent to the state forensic laboratory in Aizawl for examination and identification," the Deputy Commissioner told IANS over phone from Mamit district headquarters.
Lalrozama, a senior IAS officer who is himself a doctor of Medicine in forensic science, said that the skulls and bones, buried under the soil, were unearthed after a landslide on Friday.
A police officer added that the skulls, bones and skeletal remains were found inside a few earthen pots and are believed to be several centuries old.
Mizoram has an unfenced international border of 404 km with Myanmar and 318 km with Bangladesh and inter-state borders with Assam, Manipur and Tripura.
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