MANILA (AFP)-Philippine workers on site swimming pool came on the mass grave, containing 14 skeletons are prisoners of war from the Japanese occupation during World War II, police said Sunday.
The police cordon in the area of the town of Nasugbu, about three hours ' drive south of the capital city of Manila, shortly after workers discovered the remains of Friday.
"Further investigations disclosed that the site was the former crew of the Japanese during the second world war, and the people there believed that the restored skeletal remains are victims of war," he said in a statement, the police.
The forensic investigation was carried out to determine the nationalities of the victims, although it is believed that the Filipinos, the police said.
The Philippines, a former US colony, fell to the control of the Japanese in 1942 during the second world war and the occupation of the three years he is considered one of the darkest period in the history of the country.
Thousands of Filipino and American soldiers died during the occupation, many of them starved to death in the Japanese garrisons across the country, said historians.
Finally, US General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of allied forces in the Southwest Pacific, returned to take control of large parts of the Philippines, when Japan formally surrendered in 1945.
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