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Police confirms mysterious text message preceded bus blasts

POLICE in Kunming City confirmed today that a mysterious text message had warned residents not to take buses just hours before two people were killed in two separate bus blasts in the provincial capital of Yunnan Province... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Tue, Jul 22 2008

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