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Victims' families compensated after bus-truck crash kills 19 in NE China

Families of 19 victims killed in Thursday's bus-truck crash in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have been compensated, local authorities said Sunday. They received 4.17 million yuan (610,000 U.S. dollars) in total as compensation. ... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Mon, Mar 23 2009

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