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BEIJING | Sat May 17, 2008 8:31am EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - A bus in east China exploded on Saturday after crashing into a tractor, killing at least 14 people, the official Xinhua news agency said.

"The bus blew up and 13 people died at the scene and another in hospital," Xinhua said, citing police in Wenzhou in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang.

The cause of the accident was under investigation.

(Reporting by Guo Shipeng; Editing by Benjamin Kang Lim)
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