SARAJEVO -- The bodies of 19 people, believed to be Muslim civilians killed during the Bosnian War, have been exhumed from a mass grave in the Cajnice district near the border with Montenegro, a local Missing Persons' Commission said on Sunday.

The 19 are believed to have been part of a group of 65 people killed by Bosnian Serbs on May 16, 1992, as they attempted to flee to Montenegro soon after the outbreak of the three-year Bosnian War.

Tins of food and blankets were found near the bodies, several of which were missing their skulls, according to Sefik Delhamet, head of the Missing Persons' Commission for the Gorazde region, around 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of the capital Sarajevo.

Delhamet said the dead probably came from the regions of Cajnice, Gorazde and nearby Foca, AFP reported.

Several hundred Bosnian Muslims were killed when Bosnian Serb troops seized control of the Foca area in 1992. Foca is today part of the Serb-run Republika Srpska, which along with the Muslim-Croat Federation makes up post-war Bosnia.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, more than 17,000 Bosnians are still unaccounted for, seven years after the end of the war that pitted Bosnian Serbs against Muslims and Croats, killing over 200,000.