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China building blast toll reaches eight

By IANS - BEIJING

08th October 2012 09:07 PM

The toll in a blast inside a building in China rose to eight Monday after five more bodies were retrieved from the debris, Xinhua reported.

Saturday's explosion was triggered by detonators illegally manufactured and stored at a residential building in Baoding city of Hebei province. Thirty people were injured.

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