Firefighters try to quell fierce flames in a wholesale small-commodities market in Shiyan, Central China's Hebei Province July 8, 2003. Several hundred wholesalers' properties were reduced to ashes and seven firefighters were injured. The cause of the fire is under investigation. [newsphoto.com.cn]

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