Gnomes `quit cruel world'

Briey - Eleven garden gnomes have been found hanged from a bridge in north-eastern France in what appeared to be a mass suicide…

Briey - Eleven garden gnomes have been found hanged from a bridge in north-eastern France in what appeared to be a mass suicide, police said yesterday. Police said they found a suicide note in which the gnomes said they wanted to "quit this cruel world" to join the "sect of the temple of submissive dwarves".

Police said they did not know where the gnomes came from and they had received no complaints from local gardeners.

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