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A charitable donation was made to Project Exploration (www.projectexploration.org) on behalf of Paul Sereno. BEIJING (AP) — A stair case guardrail at a school in northern China collapsed while students were leaving, causing a crush of humanity that killed 21 schoolchildren and injured 47, authorities and the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The accident at the No. 2 Middle School in Fengzhen, a city in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, hap pened at 6:50 p.m. Monday, Xinhua said. A guardrail along stairs inside the building gave •r said. She s;ud the student!, who were killed didn't fall far hut w ere crushed by hundreds of oth ers who fell on top of them. She said students behind those hurt in the initial collapse did not sec what happened and kept pushing forward. The dead children were lying there with open eyes and mouths. It looked really tragic and miserable,” said the officer. Government officials and hundreds of armed police sealed off roads around the school and ordered local media not to report w ere sent to remote other cities bee Feng/hen’s limits facilities, she said. An official at Fc ; government officer the accident but saxh available to give » would not give his si t 'alls to the Middle School __ Fengzhen is aboa northwest way while students poured out the acciti lent, she said. of classes at the end of the day. More than 260 me H 4 ... the report said. workers and 12 umbuL The exact death toll remained respond* :d to the acci unknown Tuesday afternoon Xinhua said. It said sp KTCi because more students may have teams hi ad been assembh gj died en route to hospitals, said a investiga te the cause. duty officer at the Fengzhen "The school must bca Public Security Bureau. She account. At the least. cv« ?nir refused to give her name. classes 1 tave been forbid* Jen vai< The collapsed rail was just the Feng; above the first-floor level, the Mam of the iniured chi Idrc MONGOLIA : <»r>g*h®n 21 students killed in staircase- rail collapse Student B senior ag called for r Falun Gong tapped ink nationwide satellite systi BEIJING (AP) — Sunoortrrs of ilv •»— w— tzenry unfair! rupted tional ( The BEIJING (AP) — Supporters of the outlawed tom the lv Falun Gong movement hacked into China's top TV satellite system, beaming flashes of their own material across the vast land during programming aimed at millions of rural Chinese, the govern ment said Tuesday. In a full-throttle condemnation Tuesday night on its national newscast and through its official news agency, the government blamed a pirated broadcast operation from Taiwan for the “TV hijacking" and demanded authorities on the island track down and punish the culprit that Chine f. China say the public < ommunicati television b rnies hw: insmuato -ms havei govemmeni tionary pro] stability. It port it has Levi Bi u«in< Edu “Why do some Falun Gong die-hards dare to blemish modem civili/.ation in such a barefaced manner?" the Xinhua News Agency said in a blistering editori al that accompanied a 1,100-word report about the incursion. Xinhua said the commandeer ing of a signal from Sino Satellite, or Sinosat, began Sept. 9 and affected signals of a service designed to enable remote villages to see broadcasts from China Central Television, or CCTV. the leading govemment-run network. ___________ The hacking also interrupted transmission of the China Education TV Station and some provincial-level TV stations, Xinhua said. It cut off television entirely for viewers in some rural and mountainous areas. Other interruptions happened Saturday during China’s Moon Festival. Xinhua said. “This seriously damaged the rights and inter ests of the audience and affected the normal edu cation order of schools as well as the learning activities of students," Zhang Tianlin. vice presi dent of the education station, was quoted as saying. Broadcasts promoting Falun Gong flashed for some moments on five TV channels, broadcast officials said, and service interruptions continued for more than an hour. It was unclear if the inter ruptions were caused by Falun Gong itself or by attempts to block its broadcasts. Falun Gong has made a practice in recent months of hacking into local TV feeds and broad casts, often broadcasting pirate transmissions to graduate, conquer the world, but first, eat. You can’t do anything on an empty stomach. Well, you can. But why? We’ve got pastas, salads, and oven-baked sandwiches. Congratulations, your first power lunch. ii This seriously damaged the rights and interests of the audience and affected the normal education order of schools. — Zhang Tianlin president of China ation TV Station hich calls the protest# and says (heyte aders Falun Gong—t Je. a U.S-based fe spokesman, said teb mat ion about anv^ originating fronilK any made in recefit praised the “hero he said was not$ orchestrated. “In the envig in. they have no* radio or any Hr owdc said. Sud;' “pulls hack ihe vd’ and deception upot* propaganda lamp? Falun (Jong has hew'- Previous hackMjf^ ed cities and regkfc appears to lv the Gong supporters have breached sucht** tributed nationwide signal. Officidt* were certain the hacking originated in^ An official with the Taiwan Aff* f w hich handles relations w'ith the island ment, said Taiwan authorities must traci- punish the hackers. 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