Dozens of Bucha civilians were killed by metal darts from Russian artillery

Forensic doctors discover flechettes - rarely used in modern warfare - in bodies found in mass graves

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Dozens of civilians who died during the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian city of Bucha were killed by tiny metal arrows from shells of a type fired by Russian artillery, forensic doctors have said.

Pathologists and coroners who are carrying out postmortems on bodies found in mass graves in the region north of Kyiv, where occupying Russian forces have been accused of atrocities, said they had found small metal darts, called flechettes, embedded in people's heads and chests.