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Firework Factory Blast Kills 13 in Shaanxi
An explosion in a workshop producing illegal fireworks has killed 13 villagers and injured 4 others. The explosion took place in Shanyang, in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Local police are hunting the owner of the factory, who disappeared following the disaster.

Sources say the accident was caused by illegal fireworks going off. Local government officials have assembled a team to investigate the accident in full.

(People’s Daily December 3, 2002)

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