Family Says Cemetery Offended Culture

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FRESNO, Calif. - Xia Yang's relatives were shoveling dirt on their matriarch's grave, performing the last rite of a traditional Hmong burial, when then they saw something that made them scatter in panic.

The plot, they said, already contained rusty casket handles and decomposing human bones. Under the family's religious beliefs, burying their grandmother with someone else's bones could prevent her from journeying to the spiritual world.

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Family Says Cemetery Offended Culture

"It was a big blow to the family," said Ka Vue, a son-in-law of Xia Yang. "People...

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