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Gypsies in Ukraine have fled their village shortly before their homes were torched by a mob in an incident that has raised the spectre of Ukraine's bloody past.

A mob ransacked and torched dozens of homes and buildings belonging to Gypsies – Roma as they are formally known – after the occupants had run for their lives around two hours before the attack.

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