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Woman tourist shot dead at North Korean resort
11 Jul 2008 06:11:03 GMT
 Source: Reuters
SEOUL, July 11 (Reuters) - A woman tourist in her fifties was shot and killed at a mountain resort in North Korea popular with South Korean tourists, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday.

Yonhap did not provide any details of the incident that took place at the Mount Kumgang resort, which is run by an affiliate of South Korea's Hyundai Group and has been visited by more than one million South Koreans. (Writing by Jon Herskovitz; editing by Jonathan Hopfner)


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