Remains dug up at mass grave site in Japan suggest epidemic in 1800s

The foundation of a structure at the Umeda Grave burial site in Osaka (Osaka City Cultural Properties Association via AP)

Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, buried in a 19th century mass grave in Osaka, Japan.

Officials at the Osaka City Cultural Properties Association studying the remains said they believe the remains were of young people who died in the late 1800s.