The remains of a person believed to be a Bosniak killed in 1992 were found at the location of Rujista, near the east Bosnian town of Visegrad, the Missing Persons Institute said Tuesday.

The remains were found on the surface of the terrain near the house of the convicted war criminal Milan Lukic, and their exhumation is in progress. The Institute added that a cross was drawn on the remains, next to which they also found shoes.

Milan Lukic is a Bosnian Serb war criminal who led the White Eagles paramilitary group during the Bosnian war of 1992-1995. He was sentenced to life in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in July 2009 of crimes against humanity and violations of war customs committed in the Visegrad municipality.

The crimes of which he was convicted include murder, assault, looting, destruction of property, torture and the killing of at least 132 identified men, women and children.

The Institute experts will continue searching and digging the site manually over the day, the statement said, adding that the exhumation was performed by the order of the state Court.

Following the exhumation, the remains will be taken to the Obduction and Identification Centre in Gorazde, a town near Visegrad, where bone-marrow samples will be taken for a DNA analysis to determine the victim's identity, the Institute said.