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A victim (left) lies on a hospital bed after being rescued from a fire at Baoyuan poultry plant at Dehui, northeast China’s Jilin province on Monday. AFP PHOTO

BEIJING: At least 112 people were killed in a fire at a poultry processing plant in northeastern China on Monday, local officials said, in what appeared to be the country’s worst blaze for 12 years.

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