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Man gets death penalty for killing six police in Shanghai

An unemployed Beijing man who killed six policemen and injured another four in a knife attack in Shanghai was sentenced to death at the Shanghai No.2 People's Intermediate Court on Monday. Yang Jia, 28, stabbed a security guard at the police... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Mon, Sep 01 2008

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