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25 dead after bus overturns amid record snowfall in China

BEIJING: Twenty-five people were killed and 13 injured Tuesday when a bus overturned on an icy road in a part of southwestern China clobbered by the heaviest snowfall in years, the government said. ...full story at Channel NewsAsia

from Channel NewsAsia on Tue, Jan 29 2008

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