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Riot over town's SARS plan
 
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Apr 29, 2003

A riot broke out in a town near Beijing after its people learned of a plan to use an abandoned school to quarantine people suspected of having the SARS virus, officials said on Tuesday.

The riot erupted on Sunday in Chagugang, a township of some 32,500 people about 70 km southeast of Beijing, a local government official said.

"The school building was not going to be transformed into a hospital, but a quarantine for people who have been in contact with SARS patients," said the official.

"From my personal point of view, the spontaneous protection by the local people of their immediate interests is understandable. But later, some people took advantage of them to incite the riot," he said.

It was also the latest sign of the undercurrent of panic in and around Beijing, which has reported nearly 1,200 infections and 59 deaths from Sars.

At one village on the outskirts of Beijing, residents had set up a checkpoint to screen people coming out of the capital and bar those not from the village.

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