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Thousands of people have attended a Mass for victims of a fire which swept through a children’s day-care centre in Mexico on Friday.
The blaze, in the city of Hermosillo, killed 42 children, most under two years old, a government official...
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State Farm insurance adjuster Nick Gregory of Spartanburg, S.C. surveys what is left of a destroyed home on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in North Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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