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Man dies in building fire in central China city

A 35-year-old man was killed in a fire at a mixed commercial-residential building in downtown Wuhan City, central China's Hubei Province. Fan Junhui, a worker hired by a shop in the building, was found dead by firefighters at 7 a.m. Friday in a... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Fri, Feb 06 2009

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