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Firefighter dies trying to save tot from burning flat

A FIREFIGHTER was killed on Friday while trying to save a toddler from a burning building in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, authorities said yesterday.

Officer Yang Kezhang was part of a team dispatched to tackle a blaze at an apartment block in the city of Yulin, the fire department said. As he was attempting to rescue a 2-year-old girl he slipped and fell to his death, it said, without elaborating. The child survived the incident unhurt, the department said.

 

 

 




 

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