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24 Dead in China Mine Blast

Owners disguised site as boar farm to dupe officials

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 18, 2008 7:12 PM CST

(Newser) – Twenty-four people died and five were wounded in a blast at an illegal iron mine in China yesterday, Xinhua reports. Mine owners, who fled the scene, had masked the site as a boar farm to dupe authorities. "The owner has violated the law by...   Read full story »

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