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Donald Trump's spokeswoman has been widely ridiculed after blaming refugees for a massacre that never happened.

She's been hammered by online memes, political foes and comedians - and now unforgiving Americans have staged mock vigils honouring the 'victims' of the fictitious attack.

Kellyanne Conway, a counsellor to the US president, referred to the apparent mass killing in Bowling Green, Kentucky, as she defended Trump's immigration ban in a televised interview.

People in Kentucky responded with a vigil remembered 'the dead' and singing Celine Dion's 'My Heart Will Go On' from Titanic.

At the vigil in Lower Manhattan, New York 'mourners' also poked fun at Conway, holding signs and shouting "We all are Bowling Green" and "Never remember, never forget".

Chris Bauer, who attended the vigil, told New York Daily News : "We’re commemorating the victims of Bowling Green. It never happened so they were never commemorated."

Meanwhile a memorial website has been set up urging people to donate to the "Bowling Green Massacre Victims Fund".

When people click on a 'donate' button they are taken to the American Civil Liberties Union website.

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Conway referenced an attack in Bowling Green while she was being interviewed by MSNBC host Chris Matthews.

She said: "I bet it's brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalised and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre.

"Most people don't know that because it didn't get covered."

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While it is true - and widely reported - that Obama reviewed visa procedures for Iraqi refugees for six months in 2011, there was no outright ban and it wasn't because of a massacre.

Conway was likely referring to the arrests of two Iraqis in Bowling Green six years ago that prompted those temporary restrictions.

Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 25, was sentenced to life and Waad Ramadan Alwan, 41, handed a 40-year jail sentence for their part in the use of an improvised explosive device (IED) against US troops in Iraq.

They were also found guilty of sending weapons and money to Al-Qaeda.