MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- The world may soon know for sure where Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca rests after fascists executed him in 1936 during Spain's Civil War. A team from the Andalucia Geophysics Institut at work in the Federico Garcia Lorca Park, Spain. Officials in southern Spain Friday cleared the last legal hurdle to permit exhuming a mass grave site in a village near Granada where Lorca and some other Civil War victims are thought to be buried, CNN partner station CNN+ reported. The area has been fenced off for weeks as scientists conducted preparatory work. Next Monday (October 19) they are due to erect a large tent over the site so that exhumation can be conducted confidentially, said Andalusia regional government justice councilor Begona Alvarez, CNN+ reported from Granada.
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Resting place of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca may soon be known
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Legal clearance been granted permitting exhumation of mass grave near Granada
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Lorca executed in 1936 by General Franco's forces during Spanish Civil War
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Thousands of Spaniards killed in the civil war still thought to be in mass graves
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