Sky News (excerpts):  Hailstones the size of golf balls have killed three people and injured 25 others in China.

The giant pieces of ice pelted several rural areas in east China's Jiangxi province overnight and on Wednesday morning, resulting in the deaths of three people, the Xinhua news agency reported.  The hailstones were said to be as large as 3.5 cm in diameter and weighed 18 gm on average.  The storms forced the evacuation of more than 700 people, destroyed about 2,700 hectares of...

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