Hunger striker's graves attacked by vandals

A plot containing the grave of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands has been damaged in an overnight attack by vandals in a west Belfast cemetery.

A plot containing the grave of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands has been damaged in an overnight attack by vandals in a west Belfast cemetery.

Sinn Féin confirmed today that 16 graves in the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery, which contains the graves of hunger strikers and three provisionals killed by the SAS in Gibraltar, were desecrated.

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