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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.
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way while students poured out
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of classes at the end of the day.
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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
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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
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audience and affected
the normal education
order of schools.
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ment, said Taiwan authorities must traci-
punish the hackers. "The Taiwan sidef
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diatcly respond to the accusation.
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