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Huge sandstorm covers Chinese city

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May 19, 2016

A blinding sandstorm with a 100-meter-high sand wall covered the city of Aral in northwest China's Xinjiang region on Wednesday. The storms pose a serious threat to factory farming, traffic and people's lives.

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