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Saturday, 04 September 2010

18 people dead in coal mine explosion in China

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BEIJING - A warehouse explosion killed 18 people and injured three at a coal mine in central China, a provincial official said Saturday. State television reported that six people were injured in the blast in the remote mountainous Hunan...

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**FILE**In this June 18, 2008 file photo, school children wave Olympic and Chinese national flags at Kashgar Peoples Square during a celebration for the Olympic Torch Relay in Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China as a tatue of Chairman Mao Zedong towers of the stage at right. Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed grenades into their barracks Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, killing 16 officers and wounding others in Kashgar in the China's restive Central Asian border province, the state-run Xinhua News Agency report

photo: AP / Robert F. Bukaty, File

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