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World › 17 students dead in Turkey dorm collapse

Rescue workers searched for survivors late into Friday night in the rubble of a three-story dormitory housing female students in central Turkey that collapsed after… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Fri, Aug 01 2008

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