Graffiti artists spray house of Anne Frank

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Two teenagers sprayed Anne Frank's house and other buildings, as well as a photographic exhibition, with aerosol paint, causing thousands of euros of damage, the ANP news agency said Sunday.

The Dutch news agency said the youths, aged 16 and 17, were caught in the act by a security guard and handed over to Amsterdam police.

Nine buildings were sprayed with graffiti, including the house where Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazi occupiers in World War II and wrote her famous diary before they were betrayed and deported to their deaths.

The open-air photographic exhibition of wild animals was showing works of the South African Steve Bloom.