Word: xiaomaiyu
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...Another conflagration erupted in the nearby village of Xiaomaiyu. Fisherman Lin had been munching on octopus and broad beans last week when he saw a commotion at the fish-breeding pens in front of him. He watched as some 400 villagers attacked an abandoned building that local officials were secretly renovating as a SARS quarantine center. As the outmanned bureaucrats looked on, the peasants forced construction workers to strip the building of its innards. Order was restored only when soldiers stationed nearby arrived. Lin and other eyewitnesses claim the soldiers beat up several elderly villagers; at least four were hospitalized...
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