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  "id": 5848057,
  "title": "Competitors dig deep in Hungarian grave-digging contest",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/competitors-dig-deep-in-hungarian-grave-digging-contest-5848057",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-05T21:53:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Associated Press",
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    "url": "https://apnews.com/article/grave-digging-contest-hungary-funerals-6e8dd952bec0d1a244eb0194a397d2bf"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In a seemingly morbid competition, 38 grave-diggers gathered in Nyergesújfalu, northern Hungary, to demonstrate their trade and shatter death-related taboos. The Hungarian Association of Cemetery Maintainers and Operators organized the gravedigging contest, which saw the competitors tackle the dry, summer-baked soil with picks and shovels. In teams of two, the gravediggers raced to dig the fastest and most aesthetically pleasing graves, a task that required both efficiency and artistry.\n\nThe contest's chief organizer, Róbert Nagy, emerged victorious, alongside his teammate László Kiss. The winning team's time was a swift 1 hour and 21 minutes, as they dug to the contest's specifications of graves that were 1.6 meters deep, 2 meters long, and 0.8 meters wide. Their triumph was celebrated with a cash prize of 200,000 Hungarian forints, roughly $640.",
  "summary": "NYERGESUJFALU, Hungary (AP) — Like death itself, this was no joke. A grave-digging contest in a Hungarian cemetery may sound like the opening line of a…",
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      {
        "outlet": "CityNews",
        "title": "Competitors dig deep in Hungarian grave-digging contest",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/competitors-dig-deep-in-hungarian-grave-digging-contest",
        "published": "2026-09-05T17:30:37.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Competitors dig deep in Hungarian cemetery’s grave-digging contest",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/competitors-dig-deep-in-hungarian-cemeterys-grave-digging-contest",
        "published": "2026-09-05T17:30:37.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Competitors dig deep at Hungarian gravedigging contest",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/competitors-dig-deep-at-hungarian-gravedigging-contest",
        "published": "2026-09-05T19:27:47.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}