Ashdod, Israel – Police were investigating a suspicion that the body of an ultra-Orthodox one-year-old baby abducted Sunday from Ashdod cemetery was secretly buried in the Jerusalem area.
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It is believed that the body was snatched from the purification room at the cemetery by ultra-Orthodox protesters who spent the day rioting over a court decision to run DNA tests on the baby’s body as reported on VOS IZ NEIAS.
Police detained a suspect in the abduction, a 53-year-old resident of Ashdod, it is believed that he has been involved in the body’s abduction.
Members of Ashdod’s ultra-Orthodox community are assisting police in their investigation. They claim they had no knowledge that a plot to abduct the body was being prepared while they negotiated with police to resolve the crisis.