Thieves in La Algaba, Sevilla, targeted the local cemetery, breaking around fifty tombstones and causing damage to a number of niches as they stole crucifixes, vases, plates and other items made from copper and bronze, presumably to resell as scrap metal.
Police are trying to establish and inventory of stolen items as well as searching for clues as to the identity of the thieves.
It is apparently not the first time thieves have targeted the cemetery.