Workers Uncover Possible Mass Grave

Workers building a power plant unearthed what appears to be the mass grave of Holocaust victims, state television reported Tuesday.

Two trenches filled with skeletons were discovered during earth-moving work for the hydropower plant near Lambach, about 140 miles west of Vienna, according to the television report.

There was no independent confirmation of the report. The Interior Ministry sent officials to the site to investigate.

The construction crew exhumed six skeletons believed to be of men in their early 20s, state television said.

The construction project is near the site of the Gunskirchen concentration camp, set up as late as March 1945 as part of the infamous Mauthausen death camp, where Nazis killed thousands of prisoners.

Most of the Gunskirchen prisoners were Hungarian Jews, who died by the dozens in the waning weeks of World War II when a typhoid epidemic swept the camp.