Remains found in search for Disappeared victim Seamus Ruddy
Investigators made the discovery at an ongoing search on Saturday, in an area of forest in northern France.
Last updated 6th May 2017
The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains announced that the discovery was at Pont-de-l'Arche.
Experts began a fresh search of the area on Tuesday.
Mr Ruddy, who was from Newry, was abducted from Paris, murdered and secretly buried by the INLA in 1985.
The commission said the process of recovering the remains would take some time.
A post-mortem examination and formal identification will then be undertaken in conjunction with the French authorities.
It's understood the family of Mr Ruddy, who was 32, have been informed of the discovery.
His sister Anne Morgan visited the search site in France on Friday, just hours before the discovery.
The ICLVR was set up during the peace process by the UK and Irish governments to recover the bodies of those murdered and secretly buried, mainly by the IRA, in the 1970s and 1980s.
There had been three previous searches in the forest area for Mr Ruddy, the most recent by the ICLVR in 2008.
The commission's experts, who require those with knowledge of the crimes to come forward and provide information without fear of prosecution, were confident the guidance they were acting on this time was accurate.
The remains of Columba McVeigh, Joe Lynskey and Robert Nairac have yet to be found.