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Nine injured as car and bus collide in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI (Kyodo) Nine people sustained minor injuries Monday in a head-on collision between a sightseeing bus and a car in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture. Read the full story . . . ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Mon, May 12 2008

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