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　　Police suspect racial motive in Liverpool ax killing
　　A black teenager who was followed through a park by a group of men shouting racist taunts died Saturday after an attacker embedded an ax in his skull.
+ G8 F0 c2 y# T" @2 Q: k　　Anthony Walker, 18, was waiting for a bus with his girlfriend and a cousin when a man started shouting racist taunts at them late Friday near Walker's home in Liverpool, police said.
. V0 S+ q8 e% K+ P3 \　　The three left to find another bus stop to avoid any trouble, police said. But a group of three or four men followed them through a park, and Walker's companions saw someone bludgeon him with an ax.
　　They ran to get help and returned a few minutes later to find him with the ax embedded in his skull, news reports said. Walker died early Saturday.
　　No arrests had been made in the attack.
$ g* m1 \9 C5 a8 h% D, P! W　　"What we are dealing with here is a vicious and unprovoked attack on a young black man which we believe to be racially motivated," said Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Currie, who was leading the investigation.
. j/ r5 f5 u* Z　　Police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently.