Fire, flood kill 95 people in China

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A torrential flood hit a school in northeast China and swept 64 people to their deaths, while a fire in the country's south raced through the top floors of a hotel and killed 31, state media reported yesterday.
Authorities in Beijing were struggling to handle the twin tragedies thousands of kilometers apart, and trying to overcome faulty communication in the flood zone and vowing to dispatch an emergency team of investigators to the hotel fire.

Friday's flash flood inundated a school in Shalan, a remote town in far northeastern Heilongjiang Province, claiming the lives of 62 students and two villagers, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

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