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35 killed, dozens wounded as car rams into crowd in Airshow China host city
A driver has killed 35 people and wounded 43 others in a “serious and vicious attack” in southern China, the latest mass homicide to shock the country and cast a pall over a display of Chinese military might only kilometres from the crime scene.
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