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BIZARRE: Excavations begin at child mass grave site in ireland | Mind Blowing Facts

Local historian Catherine Corless in 2014 produced evidence that the 796 children had died at the home (Credit: AFP)

Excavations begin Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of containing the remains of hundreds of infants and young children.

The planned two-year probe by Irish and foreign experts in Tuam comes more than a decade after an amateur historian first uncovered evidence of a mass grave there.

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