WARSAW, Sept. 2 -- Poland held a state burial on Monday for more than 700 victims killed in mass executions by Nazis during World War II.

The mass executions were recently uncovered near Chojnice in northern Poland. The victims' remains were interred with military honors in a local cemetery on Monday.

The event was attended by victims' relatives, local authorities, senior officials from the National Remembrance Institute, and an aide to President Andrzej Duda.

The remains of Polish civilians, including 218 asylum patients, were exhumed between 2021 and 2024 from several separate mass graves on the outskirts of Chojnice. Personal belongings and documents helped identify around 120 of the victims, among whom were teachers, priests, police officers and landowners.

The remains of another 500 victims are from the January 1945 execution.

Historians and experts continue to search for more mass graves in the region.

  - Xinhua