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Updated Monday, February 25, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

Chinese man attacks police station over firecracker ban

BEIJING -- A Chinese entrepreneur led an attack on a police station after he was ordered to stop setting off firecrackers, state media reported Sunday. Zhang Jiuyuan, a telecom executive in southwest China’s Dazhou city, was among a group celebrating the end of Lunar New Year Thursday by setting off firecrackers in a square where they had been banned, the Beijing News said.

When a police car stopped them, and apparently hauled one of the group in for interrogation, Zhang led an attack on the police station, crashing through the front gate, according to the report. In the ensuing melee, 12 police officers were injured, including a female official who was beaten unconscious, the paper said.

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