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MOSCOW — Villagers in Russia's south Urals have stumbled upon a gruesome discovery — four barrels containing 248 human fetuses left in a forest.

Police
in the Sverdlovsk region said Tuesday, July 24, the fetuses, preserved in
formaldehyde, were kept in barrels with tags containing surnames and
numbers.

Police suspects that one of the four local hospitals is responsible for dumping the barrels.

The
fetuses were found a few miles away from a highway linking the region’s
capital, Yekaterinburg, with another big city, Nizhny Tagil.