Provos to be asked to give new information on secret graves in fresh push to find the Disappeared
New Disappeared investigator issues plea to ex-IRA members to help find remains of four men killed and secretly buried in 1970s
Former IRA members will be the focus of a new bid to recover the remaining four bodies of the disappeared victims who were killed and secretly buried during the Troubles.
The initiative will be spearheaded by a former garda detective inspector who has worked to solve old case murders has been appointed lead investigator with the so-called Disappeared Commission.
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