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Saturday, January 01, 2005 (Philippines)
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| Near Cebu City's Fuente Osmeña, a young woman offers a safer and cheaper alternative to firecrackers for the New Year's Eve revelry. (Sun.Star Cebu/Amper Campaña) |
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BOCAUE -- Seven people were killed and dozens of houses and stores destroyed after a fire broke out along a strip of stalls selling firecrackers in the fireworks-producing community of Turo in Bocaue early Friday.
Four other people also remained missing and were feared dead.
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