Forensic science

The Bosnian Missing Persons Institute said on Wednesday that the remains of three presumed Bosniak war victims who disappeared in the Mostar area in 1993 have been exhumed in the settlement of Miljkovici.

A Turkish doctor who accused a woman victim of a high-profile femicide of consenting to rape before being murdered has been banned from practicing his profession for six months.

The first official findings from the investigation into the causes of the deadly fire in a modular hospital in Tetovo on the night of September 8 indicate that a faulty extension cord overheated and caused a short circuit that led to the blaze.

A forensic report submitted to a local court in the high profile femicide case reveals that Pınar Gültekin, a 27-year-old student who was murdered in the Aegean province of Muğla last year, was burned alive.

The Specialized Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment with the Specialized Criminal Court against N.M., a leader of a political party, for helping a foreign organization in order to serve as a spy, aiming to disclose information that was a state secret.

The Missing Persons Institute said that an exhumation on Wednesday in the grounds of the Sarajevo University Clinical Centre, known as the Kosevo Hospital, revealed bone fragments, shoes and a wristwatch that probably belonged to a 1990s war victim.

Criminal prosecutors and police finished the on-site investigation at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Prof. Dr. Matei Bals on Friday, one week after the fire that broke out on January 29, and a technical expertise will be ordered in this case by INCD INSEMEX Petrosani, in order to establish the causes of the fire.

A prosecutor in Hania, Crete, charged a 48-year-old Norwegian man with the murder of his 54-year-old partner with a knife in the area of Meskla and was given until tomorrow to prepare his defense.

A man who skinned two stray puppies, removed their nails and hung them last August in Hania on the island of Crete was arrested on Wednesday after he was identified by police forensics teams via DNA testing.

It was the first time police had used DNA analysis to track down a suspect connected with animal cruelty.

A 20-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the murder of a hotel owner on the popular holiday island of Santorini last week.

The charred body of the hotelier was found by firefighters putting out a blaze in a part of the hotel last Friday.