Warnings, jailings reported in China protest deaths – Reuters

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Chinese city officials have received “serious warnings” and six villagers were jailed after police shot and killed people protesting against the building of a wind farm in southern Guangdong province in December, media reports said on Wednesday.

At least three people died and eight were wounded in Dongzhou village, part of Guangdong’s Shanwei city, when police shot villagers protesting against a lack of compensation for land lost to a wind power plant, government officials had said.

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