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Two killed, 10 injured in mass brawl in Moscow cemetery

Xinhua, May 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

Two people were killed and 10 others injured in a mass brawl with gunshots heard at Khovanskoye cemetery in southwest Moscow, the TASS news agency reported Saturday.

Some 200 people were involved in the brawl, and about 50 people have been detained, TASS said, quoting local police as saying.

Local authorities have not commented on the cause of the incident, but earlier media reports said that some of those involved in the brawl had failed to divide the territory of services at the cemetery. Endi