Fifty skeletons still boxed up after being exhumed from eroding cemetery in Fitzroy Crossing
ABC Kimberley
By Erin Parke
Updated about 8 hours ago
The skeletons of 50 people remain boxed up in a sea container in the northern WA town of Fitzroy Crossing, after the excavation of an eroding cemetery that had bones poking from the dirt.
For years, the Fitzroy River was left to eat away at the old burial site, despite local Aboriginal people raising concerns about why the mainly 'white' town cemetery had been relocated, while the unmarked graves of their relatives were left to wash away.
A three-month excavation funded by the State Government has now wrapped up, with the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre saying six sets of remains had been identified.
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