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World IN BRIEF : CHINA : 2 Boys Rescued From Building’s Rubble

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From Times Wire Reports

Rescuers pulled two youths alive from the rubble of an apartment building blown up by 10 tons of dynamite in central China but said hopes were fading of finding any more survivors. “I want to go home. I’m hungry,” said 12-year-old Hui Lin after he was rescued with few injuries, Hong Kong’s China-backed Ta Kung Pao newspaper said. The other boy, 13-year-old Jiang Qin, had been pinned beneath a sofa buried by almost 20 feet of debris, it said. More than 100 people were killed when illegally stored dynamite exploded Wednesday in Jiqi, near the city of Shaoyang in Hunan province.

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