Civil War victims' families visit graves on All Saints Day

Given that they could not go to cemeteries, hundreds of family members of victims of the Spanish Civil War marked the All Saints Day holiday on Tuesday by visiting the roadside sites where many of their loved ones are buried in mass graves.

In La Pedraja, in the province of Burgos, where a team of archeologists and forensic experts recovered 105 bodies last year, an exhumation on Tuesday revealed another 50. The bodies of a further nine men, handcuffed with barbed wire and killed by neighbors two months after the end of the conflict, were discovered in Ciudad Real.

According to the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, there are still some 113,000 people buried in mass graves that have yet to be identified. "My father is here but we don't know where," 89-year-old Rafael Martínez said Tuesday at La Pedraja.