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Every year during the height of the rainy season, villagers of all ages in a corner of southwestern China would suddenly die of cardiac arre ...

A man firing a small automatic weapon burst into a court office in central China on Tuesday, fatally shooting three judges and wounding three other people before killing himself, an official said.

A train derails in a mountainous area of south-eastern China, with reports saying at least 10 people have been killed.

A powerful earthquake killed at least 67 people and left many others buried under debris early Wednesday.

A celebration of China's lunar new year turned deadly as a firecracker explosion killed 19 and wounded dozens, state media reported Saturday.

Punishment beatings have been banned from Chinese camps set up to cure teenage internet addicts after one of them died.

AFP - A town in a Tibetan area in northwest China has been sealed off after two of its residents died from pneumonic plague, the local government and state media said Sunday.

Police shot dead two Uighurs on Monday in renewed unrest in China's far northwestern region of Xinjiang, Reuters reported state radio as saying.

At least 184 people died in last weekend's violent protests in China's far-west Xinjiang region, state-run media reported.

Chinese state media says that 129 people have been killed and more than 800 hurt in violence in the country's western Xinjiang region.