Three dead after 200 brawl in 'turf war' over control of burial services at Moscow cemetery

A violent brawl today at a Moscow cemetery involving about 200 people in an apparent turf war left three people dead and 23 others in hospital, police and health officials said.

Those in the brawl fired guns and used shovels, shovel handles, steel bars and baseball bats against their opponents, Russian news reports said.