Human Skulls Discovered During Routine Check By Fire Fighters.

Dozens of human skulls has been found during a routine check by the the Italian Government fire fighters of much damaged was made by the recent earthquake which killed more than 60 people. The human skulls was found in a damaged building located in a town called Norcia. The town was said to be very close to the epicentre of two serious quakes in late October. The owner of the building, a lawyer living in Modena, northern Italy, reportedly told police that the house had been in his family for years and he had inherited it, but never used it personally.
 

"I've never seen those skulls - maybe the earthquake uncovered them," he said, according to local paper Valnerina Oggi.

The remains have been confiscated by police, who will now attempt to examine them in order to work out who they might have belonged to, when they died and if there is a need to open any criminal inquiries. 

However, police said that they had not excluded the theory that the remains might have belonged a doctor, for example, for the purpose of anatomical study.

The Italian fire service has been carrying out structural checks in the wake of a series of earthquakes in central Italy, a task made more difficult by repeated aftershocks.