Skeleton in bag found in Crimea

A bag with human remains found near Moynaki Lake in Evpatoria. Law enforcement officers ascertain identity.

Russian medias reports it with reference to the Russian Investigative Committee in Evpatoria.

«We can confirm that a human body was found in a bag. Now, a DNA expertise is scheduled to establish identity. It is unknown how long the body lay in the bag. It is a whole skeleton. Gender and age have not yet been established,» the agency informs.

Crimean Tatar journalist Shevket Namatullaev suggests a found skeleton to be one of those missing activists in Crimea since annexation.

«It turns out that a dead body was place in a bag, which eventually mouldered. Do not you think that it might be a skeleton of someone abducted during the first months of occupation? I cannot assert it unless there are results of expert study, though we have to watch this find,» the journalist wrote on Facebook.

As it is known, 17 residents have disappeared without a trace within 5 years of Crimea’s occupation, 13 of them are Crimean Tatars. Among them are Valery Vashchuk, Ivan Bondarets, Vasily Chernysh, Timur Shaymardanov, Seyran Zinedinov, Islyam Dzhepparov, Dzhevdet Islyamov, Eskender Apselyamov, Fedor Kostenko, Mukhtar Arislanov, Arlen Terekhov, Ruslan Ganiev, Marcel Alyautdinov, Arsen Aliev, Ervin Ibragimov, Rizvan Abduramanov and Eynar Eyupov.