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Daily headlines: Robbery in Changchun

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Three Beijing newspapers used similar photos on their front pages about an incident in Changchun: A 23-year-old bandit kidnapped a middle aged woman who was driving a car to pick up her kid from kindergarden. People on the street stopped him and called the police. The bandit took the woman as hostage and started to bargain with the police, but he refused all offers and threatened to kill the hostage. So the police shot him. Both the hostage and bandit died.

Image: Three newspapers' front pages (from left): Beijing Morning Post, Beijing Daily Messenger and Beijing Youth Daily.

Headlines from today's newspapers are below:

Beijing Morning Post 北京晨报
北大清华调档线昨出炉
Minimum exam scores for enrolling at Peking and Tsinghua University released

The Beijing News 新京报
重点院校在京招生开始
Key universities start to recruit students in Beijing

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
温网女单冠亚军都将来参赛
Winner and runner-up of Wimbledon final will participate in China Open tennis match

Beijing Daily Messenger 北京娱乐信报
体彩中心8人受贿42万
8 people bribed for RMB 420,000 in sports lottery tickets centre

People's Daily 人民日报
重拳打击涉电犯罪刻不容缓
Strike hard against the crime of stealing electricity without wasting any time

Headlines of yesterday's evening newspapers:

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
职工工资收入不得减少
Workers' salaries cannot be reduced [during vacation]

Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
城市教室 市民课堂
[Shanghai Library is] city classroom and citizen's lesson

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