The first exhumation and examination of bodies is taking place in Galicia to examining the deaths of four members of the same family shot during the Civil War seventy years ago.

This is the first exhumation since the government approved project of the Law of History, to establish the rights of civil war victims.

The remains are those of Manuel Ramos 67, his wife Juana 59 and their sons Manuel and Jose 28 and 21 years respectively. They were shot by firing squad on the 22 August 1936.

The Foundation members of the Memoria Historica want to recover the bodies and examine them.

On the part of the family the Grandson Jesus Remos said that they should not be forgotten. 'Now we can recover them and give them their rights to receive a dignified burial,' he concluded.