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Devastation at Chinese shoe factory

22/10/2007

Reports indicate that 37 people were killed and a further 19 were injured during a blaze at a shoe factory in southeast China.

The fire broke out at the unlicensed factory in the suburbs of Putian city, in the Fujian province, on October 21 as a number of employees worked overtime.

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