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National anguish at death of five Chinese street children


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By —— Bio and Archives November 21, 2012

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London Telegraph
The five boys, all cousins and brothers, aged between nine and 13, died last Thursday night in Guizhou, China’s poorest province, after lighting the charcoal fire to fend off the cold. Their bodies were found the following day.



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