Eighteen two-man teams of Hungarian gravediggers are demonstrating their skills for a place in a regional championship to be held in Slovakia later this year.
Participants in the contest, in the public cemetery of the eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen,were being judged on their speed but were also getting points for style - the look of the grave mounds.
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