The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children in Canada. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the discovery as heartbreaking on Friday
Canada's residential school system, which forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, constituted "cultural genocide," an investigation into the now-defunct system found in 2015.
The report documented horrific atrocities suffered by many of the 150,000 children who attended the schools, typically run by Christian churches on behalf of Ottawa from the 1840s to the 1990s.