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Deadly blasts hit western China

Pre-dawn clashes in a remote northwestern county Sunday killed at least eight people, including a security guard, after assailants using handmade explosives attacked police and government facilities, China's state-run Xinhua reported. ...full story at CNN

from CNN on Sun, Aug 10 2008

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