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Zhou Kehua, possessions. [Weibo.com

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Photo provided by China's Ministry of Public Security shows a policeman cleans up pistols left by Zhou Kehua, a serial killer who was shot dead by police in southwest China's Chongqing on Aug. 14, 2012. Zhou Kehua killed nine and wounded several others in armed robberies since 2004. (Xinhua)

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Equation said:

Whoa...that's some high caliber bullets to not only killed him instantly but it also knocked out his glasses and his belongings off.

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A fishing boat carrying activists from the Hong Kong-based "Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands" sails near the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan or Diaoyu in China, in this handout photo taken by the Japan Coast Guard on August 15, 2012. Bitter memories and current rivalries are straining Japan's ties with China and South Korea nearly seven decades after Tokyo's defeat in World War Two, raising the risk of ruptures as all three nations head for leadership changes.

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A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship sails around a fishing boat (R) carrying activists from the Hong Kong-based "Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands" near the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan or Diaoyu in China, in this handout photo taken by the Japan Coast Guard August 15, 2012. Bitter memories and current rivalries are straining Japan's ties with China and South Korea nearly seven decades after Tokyo's defeat in World War Two, raising the risk of ruptures as all three nations head for leadership changes.

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A firefighter prepares to search for trapped people in a 10-meter-deep pit caused by a road cave-in in Northeast China's Harbin city. [Photo/Xinhua]

HARBIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Two people died from injuries sustained in the fall into a 10-meter-deep pit caused by a road cave-in in northeast China's Harbin city, local authorities said Wednesday.

The other two who also fell into the pit are still in hospital, but the injuries are not life-threatening, according to officials with the city government.

The cave-in happened Tuesday afternoon in Liaoyang Street in Nangang District of Harbin, leaving a 10-square-meter and 10-meter deep pit on the road.

Investigation into the cause of the accident is underway.

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A firefighter (L) holds a 14-month-old baby who has been rescued from a pit caused by a road cave-in in Harbin, Heilongjiang province August 14, 2012. According to local authorities, two people died from injuries sustained in the fall into a 10-meter-deep pit caused by a road cave-in in northeast China's Harbin city, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken August 14, 2012.

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A policeman tries to control protesters as they hold a banners reading "Declare war against Japan" and "Japan get out of Diaoyu islands" outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Chinese protesters gathered to protest against Japanese plans to nationalize disputed islands, which also claimed by Taiwan and China. The islands called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese have long been a source of tension in the region.

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Protesters tear anti-Japan placards during a rally outside the Japanese Consulate General in Hong Kong Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Hong Kong activists trying to reach disputed islands claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan said they're being tailed by Japanese government ships. The islands, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, have long been a source of tension in the region. The placards read: "Overturn Japanese militarism."

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A worker monitors molten iron pouring into a furnace at steel manufacturing plant in Hefei, Anhui province August 15, 2012. China's daily crude steel output fell 0.8 percent to 1.99 million tonnes in July from the previous month, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed, as steelmakers scaled back output in the face of sharply falling prices.

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Hong Kong chief executive C.Y Leung (C-R) poses with bronze medalist Sarah Lee Wai-Sze (C-L) during a ceremony celebrating the return of the Hong Kong delegation to the London 2012 Olympic games in Hong Kong on August 15, 2012. Hong Kong won their first ever Olympic medal in a cycling event at the London 2012 Olympics and only their third overall. Hong Kong athletes previously wining one gold from windsurfing in 1996 and one Olympic silver medal from table tennis

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Soldiers clean up a road which was cut off by a mudslide triggered by flooding in Tebo County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Gansu Province, Aug. 14, 2012. Rainstorms began to hit Tebo County on Monday morning, which caused floods and cut off transportation, water and power supplies to the county. Two villagers from the county are reported missing. Rescuers have arrived and a search operation is under way. (Xinhua/Gao Bingnan)

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A boy looks at the puppet from the movie "Superman" during a puppet show in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Aug. 15, 2012. (Xinhua/Zhao Xiaoming)

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A girl looks at the puppets from the movie "Fist of Fury" during a puppet show in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Aug. 15, 2012. (Xinhua/Zhao Xiaoming)

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A fireman puts out fire on a truck on a section of Huyu (Shanghai-Chongqing) Expressway in Tujia Autonomous County of Changyang in the city of Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, Aug. 14, 2012. Four people died and four others were injured in a pileup accident here on Tuesday.(Xinhua/Fang Pei)

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A policeman pours petrol on the gambling machine at Renjiagou village of Shunqing District, Nanchong City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 14, 2012. Local policemen destroyed some 1000 confiscated gambling machine in Shunqing District of Nanchong City. (Xinhua/Li Xiangyu)

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The gambling machines are destroyed at Renjiagou village of Shunqing District, Nanchong City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 14, 2012. Local policemen destroyed some 1000 confiscated gambling machine in Shunqing District of Nanchong City. (Xinhua/Li Xiangyu)

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Man builds himself bionic hands
Sun Jifa lost both his hands when a homemade blast-fishing bomb exploded prematurely. Unable to afford the prosthetic limbs offered by a hospital, he created his own. After the accident, Sun Jifa, 51, of Guanmashan, Jilin province, in northern China, desperately needed to work on his family farm, according to the Daily Mail. “I survived, but I had no hands,” he explained. “I couldn’t afford to buy the false hand the hospital wanted me to have, so I decided to make my own,” Jifa says. He spent eight years handcrafting prototypes before finally creating metal hands that could grip and hold. The devices depend on a series of wires and pulleys inside, and are controlled by movements in his elbows, he said. “I made this from scrap metal for virtually nothing,” Jifa says. “There is no need to pay hospitals a fortune.” He says he will further develop the design for other disabled people. “The only drawback is that steel is quite heavy,” he concedes. “So they’re tiring to wear and get hot or cold in the extremes of summer and winter.” (EuroPics/CEN)

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no_name said:

While I may not agree with blast fishing what this guys did was commendable.

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jackliu said:

Hope people read this story and fund his idea. He said the only drawback is it is too heavy, because it is made of steel, I'm sure you can just easily make it out of aluminium and plastic parts.

Anyone played Deus Ex: Human Revolution?

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no_name said:

Normal plastic and aluminium may not be durable enough for long term day to day activities though.

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no_name said:

While I may not agree with blast fishing what this guys did was commendable.

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China's President Hu Jintao (R) shows the way to his Costa Rican counterpart Laura Chinchilla in front of a Chinese national flag during an official welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing August 16, 2012.

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Lei Jun, founder and CEO of China's mobile company Xiaomi, pauses in front of his company's logo at a launch ceremony of Xiaomi Phone 2 in Beijing August 16, 2012. In China's booming smartphone market, which is set this year to overtake the United States as the world's largest, a host of little-known local firms are primed with cheap phones to squeeze market share from U.S. giant Apple Inc's iPhone. In the latest local challenge to the iPhone, Xiaomi Technology on Thursday launches the successor to its popular MiOne smartphone, which is expected to have top-end specifications exceeding those of the iPhone 4S - at around half the price.

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A user of Xiaomi uses his mobile phone to take a photo at a launch ceremony of Xiaomi Phone 2 in Beijing August 16, 2012.

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A boat, center, is surrounded by Japan Cost Guard's patrol boats after some activists descended from the boat on Uotsuri Island, one of the islands of Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, in East China Sea Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Regional tensions flared on the emotional anniversary of Japan s World War II surrender as activists from China and South Korea used Wednesday s occasion to press rival territorial claims, prompting 14 arrests by Japanese authorities. The 14 people had traveled by boat from Hong Kong to the disputed islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan.

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Chinese activist , that landed on the disputed island known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, are arrested by police at Naha port in Japan's sourthern island of Okinawa on August 16, 2012. Japan arrested 14 people after pro-China activists landed on August 15 on an island at the centre of a bitter territorial row in an episode that threatens to further destabilise fractious ties.

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Members of the Hong Kong Democratic Party display eggs wrapped in paper printed with the Japanese national flag as they join protesters outside the Japanese consulate in Hong Kong on August 16, 2012.

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A paramilitary police officer guards the entrance of the Japanese consulate in Shanghai August 16, 2012. Protesters marched towards the consulate to demand the release of detained activists after they landed on the disputed islands called Senkaku in Japan, or Diaoyu in China. China urged Japan on Wednesday to immediately and unconditionally release 14 Chinese nationals held over a protest landing on disputed islands that have long been a source of tension between the two big Asian powers.

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Chinese protesters hold a national flag and a banner that reads "Return our territory, return our people" during a ralluy in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Fourteen Chinese people were arrested Wednesday for landing without authorization on disputed islands, known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, in the East China Sea. The protesters had traveled by boat from Hong Kong to the uninhabited islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan.

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A Chinese protester tries to throw a traffic cone towards the Japanese Embassy during a protest against the arrests of 14 activists, in Beijing Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012.

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Visitors (L) taste Japanese products at the Hong Kong Food Expo 2012 in Hong Kong on August 16, 2012, where Japanese food is featured in a dedicated pavilion with over 220 exhibitors. A Japanese minister said that food is crucial in maintaining good relations between his country and Hong Kong, after Japan arrested pro-China activists who landed on a chain of disputed islands.

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Protesters asking for the release of activists burn paper printed with the military flag of Japan outside the Japanese consulate in Hong Kong on August 16, 2012. Japan arrested 14 people after pro-China activists from Hong Kong and Macau landed on the archipelago -- known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan -- that has been at the centre of a festering territorial row.

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