An indigenous group in Canada says it has found hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan province, BBC reports.
The Cowessess First Nation said on Wednesday that the discovery was “the most significantly substantial to date in Canada.”
However the group did not specify the exact number of graves found.
It comes weeks after the remains of 215 children were found at a similar residential school in British Columbia.
Such compulsory boarding schools were run by the Canadian government and religious authorities during the 19th and 20th Centuries with the aim of assimilating indigenous youth.
Last month, the Cowessess began to use ground-penetrating radar to locate unmarked graves at the cemetery of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.
The Cowessess called the discovery “horrific and shocking.”
