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A woman speaks on the phone while reading newspapers outside a construction site in central Yangon April 3, 2013. Security has been tightened in parts of Myanmar's biggest city and former capital Yangon after a fire killed 13 boys in a dormitory of an Islamic school on Tuesday. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (MYANMAR - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION)

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