KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia's attorney general says he'll file charges against Muslims who marched with, and stomped on, a bloody cow head to protest the planned construction of a Hindu temple.

The Aug. 28 protest is said to have insulted Hindus and stoked tensions among Malaysia's three main ethnic groups -- the Malay Muslim majority and Chinese and Indian minorities.

Several dozen protesters paraded through the streets with the severed cow head to denounce the state government's plan to build a temple in their largely Muslim neighborhood. Hindus consider cows sacred.

State authorities later said they found a new site to build the temple.

Malaysia's attorney general says some protesters who carried the cow head and stepped on it will be charged with sedition, while others will be prosecuted for illegal assembly.

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