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Two gypsies killed in apparent race-hate attack in Volga area

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Local prosecutors said they had launched a criminal case and were checking whether the attackers were members of a local skinhead gang.

VOLGOGRAD, April 14 (RIA Novosti) - Two people have been killed in an apparently racially motivated attack on a gypsy camp in the Volga area, local police said Friday.

A group of about ten young men armed with wooden sticks and iron bars attacked the camp in Volgograd Region Thursday night, killing a man and a woman. A girl and an elderly woman were hospitalized with injuries.

Local prosecutors said they had launched a criminal case and were checking whether the attackers were members of a local skinhead gang.

The attack is the latest in a string of apparently racially motivated incidents to have hit Russia in recent months. The latest was the murder of a Senegalese student in St. Petersburg April 7 that sparked protests in Russia's second city.

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