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Girls death leads thousands in China to riot
30.06.2008
(CNN) -- Authorities have restored order in a county in southern China after demonstrators burned a police station and a government building, state-run news agencies reported.
Some of about 10,000 demonstrators overturned cars and set fires to protest the police investigation into the death of a 15-year-old girl, according to the state-run China Daily and the privately owned Hong Kong Cable TV, a CNN affiliate.
It was the latest of several public demonstrations in China, and it came just weeks before China hosts the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
The riot started late Saturday afternoon and lasted until early Sunday morning, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Images broadcast on Hong Kong Cable TV showed several overturned cars in front of buildings in flames. The station identified the buildings as a police station and a government building.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/30/china.riots/index.html