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Deadly blasts 'not related to Olympics'

POLICE investigating two deadly bus explosions in a southwestern Chinese city had not found any links between the blasts and next month's Beijing Olympics, officials said yesterday. Police in Kunming, capital... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Tue, Jul 22 2008

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