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Two major fires kill 93 in China

DEADLY SUNDAY Forty women died in a blaze at a village shrine while at least 54 people perished at a Jilin shopping center

AP , WUFENG, CHINA

China has suffered a string of accidents in recent weeks that have killed scores of people.

Thirty-seven people were killed in a stampede in Beijing during a festival celebrating the last night of the Lunar New Year holiday. Also during the holiday, a bus crash in the southeast killed 24 people.

In December, a gas well blowout in the country's west killed 243 people -- leaving villages strewn with bodies.

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