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July 3rd, 2008
Posted: 11:39 PM ET

(CNN) — Two officials in southwestern China have been replaced for “severe malfeasance” after a protest involving about 30,000 people descended into a riot, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Friday.

Demonstrators burned more than 160 offices and 40 cars in an incident that injured more than 150 police and protesters, the news agency said. The riot happened June 28 in Weng’an County of Guizhou Province.

People angry by investigators’ handling of a teenage girl’s death targeted a police station and government building. The police said at first that the girl — Li Shu Fan — drowned, but her family said she was raped and murdered, Xinhua reported.

Authorities re-opened the case after the riot.


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