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发帖数: 8422 | 1 Russian woman dies after '12 hour customs wait'
Published on Sep 23, 2011
MOSCOW (AFP) - An elderly Russian woman died of a heart attack after
standing for 12 hours in a queue to cross the border from China, reports
said on Friday.
The 74-year-old resident of a Siberian town of Borzya was a tourist coming
back from China through the busy checkpoint in the village of Zabaikalsk
when she felt sick and collapsed after a long wait.
'The woman had 52kg of luggage instead of the 50kg (allowed), and when they
began to inspect her, her heart couldn't take it,' an official at a tour
agency Roza Vetrov told Interfax news agency.
'This is not a unique incident of people feeling sick,' he said. 'There are
many tourists... Standing for 12 hours, and sometimes longer, is difficult.'
The Zabaikalsk checkpoint is on a branch of Russia's Transsiberian railroad
going to China's Manzhouli city, which caters to Russian tourists and
shoppers after cheaper Chinese goods. | d***y
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