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26/08/2004
Graveyard damaged by vandals in Co Down
Police are appealing for information following an attack on a graveyard in Co Down.
The incident occurred at the First Presbyterian Church in Saintfield and was reported to police shortly before 9pm on Thursday.
Seven gravestones were damaged and 12 clay flower pots smashed in the attack which police described as "sickening".
Today's incident is the second attack on a graveyard in Northern Ireland in the past week.
On Tuesday vandals destroyed 14 gravestones at a Presbyterian cemetery in Co Armagh.
Newry and Armagh Ulster Unionist Assembly member Danny Kennedy described the vandalism "as repulsive and disrespectful".
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The incident occurred at the First Presbyterian Church in Saintfield and was reported to police shortly before 9pm on Thursday.
Seven gravestones were damaged and 12 clay flower pots smashed in the attack which police described as "sickening".
Today's incident is the second attack on a graveyard in Northern Ireland in the past week.
On Tuesday vandals destroyed 14 gravestones at a Presbyterian cemetery in Co Armagh.
Newry and Armagh Ulster Unionist Assembly member Danny Kennedy described the vandalism "as repulsive and disrespectful".
(MB)
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