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Twenty-four dead in bus fire in southwest China
Fri, Jun 05, 2009
AFP

BEIJING - Twenty-four people were killed in a bus fire in the southwest Chinese city of Chengdu early Friday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

It was not immediately clear from Xinhua's report how the fire had started.

The report also said that the inferno had left an unspecified number of people injured. -AFP

 
 
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