33 missing Turkish Cypriots laid to rest after four decades

Cyprus: The remains of 33 Turkish Cypriot village dwellers who were shot and killed after they were taken off two buses during 1974 Turkey's invasion of ethnically divided Cyprus island have been buried on Monday after they were discovered down a mineshaft 42 years after.

The Turkish Cypriot member of the Committee on Missing Persons, Gulden Plumer Kucuk, told The Associated Press on Monday that the mass burial in Taskent village in the Turkish North Cypriot part of the island comes just four decades after they were killed.

The remains of 45 other people who were also aboard the buses had been laid to rest in the village in 2014.

Hundreds of both Greek and Turkish Cypriots citizens had disappeared during the conflict in 1974.

Kucuk says so far about 680 people have been identified, but that around 200 Turkish Cypriots and 900 Greek Cypriots were still missing.