Police: More Than 100 Headstones Damaged At Pa. Jewish Cemetery
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police say more than 100 headstones have been vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, damage discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri.
Police said a man visiting the cemetery called police at 9:40 a.m. Sunday to report that three of his relatives' headstones had been knocked over and damaged.
Officers found that about 100 other headstones were also knocked over, apparently sometime after dark Saturday. A criminal mischief/institutional vandalism investigation was opened.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia lists Mount Carmel as a Jewish cemetery.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon called the report "shocking and a source of worry."
The damage comes less than a week after a Jewish cemetery in suburban St. Louis reported more than 150 headstones vandalized, many of them tipped over.
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