20 Die in Two Separate Fireworks Explosions
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Twenty people, including five police officers, were killed in two separate fireworks explosions in China’s central province of Hubei, the official New China News Agency reported.
A group of more than 20 government officials and police raided a village near Wuhan, the provincial capital, Tuesday night to confiscate fireworks from farmers who were selling them, the news agency said. An explosion at a dealer’s house shortly thereafter killed 17 people, including five police officers, the news agency said.
Earlier Tuesday, an explosion in Wuhan killed three people at an illegal private fireworks plant.
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