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Train passengers in southern China screamed in terror when more than 600 scorpions escaped from a cardboard box.
China Daily, quoting Guangzhou Daily, says a passenger violated railway regulations by taking the scorpions onto the train from Guangzhou to Chongqing.
The scorpions climbed out of the box when the train arrived in Zhaoqing, frightening everyone in the carriage.
It took more than 30 minutes for the railway police, crew members and some passengers to catch them all.
The passenger with the scorpions had bought them from a scorpion farm after reading that raising scorpions was a profitable industry.
He was taking them back to his home town of Sichuan to set up his own farm, the newspaper said.
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China Daily, quoting Guangzhou Daily, says a passenger violated railway regulations by taking the scorpions onto the train from Guangzhou to Chongqing.
The scorpions climbed out of the box when the train arrived in Zhaoqing, frightening everyone in the carriage.
It took more than 30 minutes for the railway police, crew members and some passengers to catch them all.
The passenger with the scorpions had bought them from a scorpion farm after reading that raising scorpions was a profitable industry.
He was taking them back to his home town of Sichuan to set up his own farm, the newspaper said.
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