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Vandals attack Hungarian cemetery

Vandals painted swastikas and anti-Semitic phrases on graves in a Jewish cemetery in southern Hungary.

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Vandals painted swastikas and anti-Semitic phrases on graves in a Jewish cemetery in southern Hungary.

The attack on the cemetery in Kaposvar, 120 miles southwest of Budapest, is the fourth in the last year, The Associated Press reported.

No arrests have been made in any of the attacks.

Vandalism also had been reported recently in a nearby Soviet military cemetery and a Catholic cemetery, according to the AP.

 

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