Mice on parade

2008-7-23  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

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A PARADE of white mice in Lishui Town of Guangdong's Foshan City caused a stir yesterday. A man, identified as Li, had raised them in a deserted building but when he found they were difficult to sell, he released them instead.

Sanitation and disease control authorities working with local police caught and killed most of them, the Foshan Daily reported, and areas where they had been were disinfected.

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