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Nine dead in hit-and-run accidents in north China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-01 15:38
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TIANJIN: Nine people died and 11 others were injured in a series of hit-and-run accidents in north China's Tianjin municipality Monday morning, police said.

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Police have seized the suspect, a 40-year-old man surnamed Zhang, who, in a fit of temper, deliberately hit vehicles, bicycle riders and pedestrians with a bus.

Three police wagons were among the vehicles hit by the bus.

Before the serial accidents, Zhang, a clerk with the Tianbao Transportation Co based at Tianjin's economic development zone, injured a colleague surnamed Li with a knife in a conflict at around 8 am, police and witnesses said.

Among the injured were four policemen who were trying to stop Zhang.
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