House collapse kills 5 FIVE people were killed and another was injured after an old house collapsed in a village in Central China’s Hubei Province, local authorities said yesterday. The collapse occurred at around 10:10 a.m. Tuesday when a group of workers were tearing it down in the Shizhuguan Village, Shuiyuesi Township in Xingshan County in the city of Yichang, according to the county government. 28 jailed A COURT in East China’s Zhejiang Province yesterday issued prison terms to 28 people convicted of smuggling over 240,000 tons of diesel into China. Wenzhou Municipal Intermediate People’s Court said the gang’s diesel smuggling activities had evaded tax amounting to 560 million yuan (US$81 million), making it the largest diesel smuggling crime in the history of Wenzhou. |