Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire
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Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire
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The 61st Regiment Farm fire and stampede was a fire that occurred on 18 February 1977 at 20:15 Xinjiang Time in a public hall showing a movie. The direct cause of the fire was the regiment hesitating to dispose of the memorial wreaths of the late Mao Zedong for five months, and eventually the wreaths were ignited by a spinning top-like firecracker set off by a 12-year-old boy at the Chinese New Year celebrations. The farm was a military-agricultural colony run by the Xinjiang 61st regiment; henc
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Fatal 1977 fire and crowd crush in China
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_61st_Regiment_Farm_fire
date created:
2021-11-13T02:44:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T05:33:30Z
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