8-year-old girl dies in blazing truck loaded with fireworks

A pickup truck carrying a firecracker firing machine and firecrackers burst into flames during a religious procession in Tainan, southern Taiwan on Saturday, with police retrieving the body of an eight-year-old girl from the vehicle after firefighters extinguished the blaze.

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