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Rare blood donors return to Inner Mongolia

Some 36 donors gave Rh B-negative blood to fill the blood stocks for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games before returning to their hometown in Chifeng, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Monday.

"They donated 12,600-ml units of Rh B-negative blood for the Olympics soon after they arrived in Beijing last week," Wang Pengkun, a local official said.