On 24 July 1999, U.S soldiers as part of KFOR discovered the bodies after local villagers reported the existence of a mass grave.
[2] According to one local villager, the mass grave was very shallow with one victim being that of a child, in addition to the site being littered with spent cartridges.
[3] The burial sited was widely reported a month after it was discovered, prompting the Yugoslav government to accuse U.S. KFOR forces of trying to cover-up the massacre.
The Yugoslav government claimed that three of them had been kidnapped "by the terrorists from the ranks of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)".
[2] An OSCE investigation shortly after the massacre reported that six of the bodies were identified as Serbs, kidnapped from nearby Livoci i Poshtem and Ranilug.