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Karamay: Prefecture-Level City, Xinjiang, Uyghur Language, 1994 Karamay Fire, Kuytun - Softcover

 
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Karamay, Qaramay or Kelamayi is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China. Qaramay comes from the Uyghur language, and means "black oil". Karamay was the site of one of the worst disasters in modern Chinese history, the 12/8/94 incident, when 324 people, 288 of them school children, lost their lives in a cinema fire on 8 December 1994. On December 8, 1994, a serious fire broke out in Friendship Theatre, Karamay, which caused the death of 325 people including 288 school children, according to official figures.

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