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Subject: Local resident Yi Jimin agreed the disaster was not an act of nature."Heavy rains and a collapse of a mountain are natural disasters, but this wasn’t…
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Local resident Yi Jimin agreed the disaster was not an act of nature."Heavy rains and a collapse of a mountain are natural disasters, but this wasn’t a natural disaster, this was man-made,’’ he said
This is China’s fourth major disaster in a year, beginning with a deadly stampede in Shanghai on New Year’s Eve, followed by a cruise ship capsize on the Yangtze River and massive explosions at a chemicals warehouse in Tianjin that killed more than 170 people
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