They knew about the bones: the arm and leg bones, the occasional skull, a few teeth still jutting out.
As the welders cut through the mangled steel of the old ships that had been brought their way, they came across the human remains mixed in with sea-rusted bullets, the odd pistol, rifles, helmets and jumbo-sized boots.
Muhammad Usman was one of those working at the welders’ yard in Brondong port in East Java when he says he smelled something.
He killed the flame of his torch to take a closer look and there, obscured by a piece of twisted metal, and lacquered in mud, was a charred human leg bone.
“I could smell something different, very unusual,” recalls Usman, his eyes widening, “I picked it up and wow, I could see that it was definitely a bone, so I gave it to the boss.”
Source : theguardian
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