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Three Arrested For Killing Of Two Russian Roma
April 14, 2006
Foreign students in St. Petersburg carry a poster that reads "Putin, help, they're killing" at an April 11 rally following the murder of a Senegalese student (file photo) (epa)
on a Roma camp that left two people dead.
The three suspects, aged 18-20, are allegedly part of a gang of skinheads that attacked residents of the camp late on April 13, beating them with metal bars.
In addition to the two deaths, an elderly woman and a teenage girl were hospitalized with serious injuries.
Russia has seen a rise in racially motivated violence, with a series of recent attacks on immigrants and ethnic minorities.
(AFP, AP)