India, June 18 -- The remains of nearly 800 infantsand young children are expected to be found in aformer church-run home for unmarried women, as excavationwork began in Ireland earlier this week.

The long-awaited excavation at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, in western Ireland, will shed light on the history of abuses in church-led institutions in the country.

The home was run by an order of Catholic nuns. It closed in 1961. Itwas one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century, reported AP.

In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down the death certificates for near...