Bodies found at another Canadian school that housed Indigenous children

Bodies found at another Canadian school that housed Indigenous children
Flags and lights mark where ground-penetrating radar recorded hits of what are believed to be 751 unmarked graves in this cemetery near the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada. on Saturday, June 26, 2021. (Mark Taylor/The Canadian Press via AP)

A Canadian Indigenous group says 182 sets of human remains have been found in unmarked graves at a site near a former residential school that housed children taken from their families.

The latest discovery of graves near Cranbrook, British Columbia, follows reports of similar findings at two other church-run schools, one of more than 600 unmarked graves and another of 215 bodies.

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