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Satan blamed for spike of killings in US

A US police department has sparked controversy by attributing a rise in homicides to young people "embracing Satan".

The Facebook page for the police department in Opp, Alabama, claimed that more people are being killed because "we have turned away from God and embraced Satan".

The post - now pulled - was slammed by non-profit group Freedom From Religion Foundation as "blatant, illegal religious promotion".