Ceausescu burial place located

DNA tests confirmed Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was buried in a grave in Bucharest, lifting doubt over his burial place.

Ceausescu ruled Romania from 1965 until he and his wife Elena were captured and shot by firing squad on Christmas Day in 1989 after fleeing protests in Bucharest, marking the fall of communism.

The execution took place at an army base near the town of Targoviste and the bodies were buried without fanfare.

“The DNA from his brother and his son show it is Nicolae Ceausescu,” Dan Dermengiu, head of Romania’s legal medicine institute, said yesterday.