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Man snatches 30,000 yuan from woman in Urumqi street

A MAN this morning robbed a woman bank customer of almost 30,000 yuan (US$3,901) as she was leaving the bank in Urumqi, the capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinhua news agency reported. ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Fri, May 11 2007

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