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Some of the 19 bodies exhumed for testing in an effort to identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that were reburied will be removed again today to gather more DNA.

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Officials seek to identify victims of 1921 massacre in once-thriving US neighbourhood known as ‘Black Wall Street’.

Historians say the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre left between 75 and 300 people dead, while the thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was destroyed.

Multiple bodies of possible Tulsa Race Massacre victims that were taken from Oklahoma cemeteries will be exhumed for a second time on Wednesday to gather more evidence necessary for identification.

The 14 sets of remains will be sent to a forensics lab in Utah that is helping scientists match victims to descendants through genetic testing.

Officials said some remains were previously exhumed to identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and then reburied in an Oklahoma cemetery.

Some of the 19 bodies exhumed for testing in an effort to identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and then reburied in an Oklahoma cemetery will be removed again starting Wednesday to gather more DNA. The latest exhumations of bodies, some of which were taken last year from Oaklawn Cemetery, will be followed…

At a cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, work to remove bodies from their graves for a second time in an effort to identify victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre is underway

The process of re-exhuming of some of the 19 bodies exhumed a year ago for testing in an effort to identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, then reburied in an Oklahoma cemetery, began Wednesday to gather more DNA from the remains.