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Excrement saves woman’s life BEIJING – A Chinese woman survived a fall from a sixth-floor balcony after she landed on a large pile of excrement dug up by workers clearing a septic tank, said state media on Tuesday.

The unnamed woman was stretching to hang washing when she lost her balance and fell from the balcony at her home in the southern city of Nanjing on Monday, the semi-official China News Service quoted a local newspaper as saying. The woman suffered only minor injuries after the 20cm heap cushioned her fall, said the agency.Workers had been dredging the tank after complaints by local residents, it said.* CNN staff flee after shooting ATLANTA – Gunfire at the CNN Centre sent employees and visitors to the landmark scurrying for cover as a domestic dispute turned violent, leading to the fatal shooting of a hotel employee and the wounding of her former boyfriend.Police said the couple argued inside the lobby of the Omni Hotel, which is part of the CNN complex in downtown Atlanta, then he dragged her down an escalator and shot her.A CNN security guard who witnessed the altercation then shot the man, critically wounding him as lunchtime wound down on Tuesday.”All of a sudden we heard a big boom.We thought it was an explosion,” said Trina Johnson, 44, of Atlanta, who was with her daughter in the food court in the CNN atrium.”We didn’t see the gun.Everybody just started running.”The Omni employee was identified as Clara Riddles, 22, according to Caryn Kboudi, a spokesperson for the Irving, Texas-based Omni Hotel chain.Kboudi said Riddles checked and restocked mini-bars in the hotel rooms.She was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital after the shooting and was pronounced dead on arrival, hospital spokeperson Denise Simpson said.The man, identified by police as Arthur Mann, in his late 30s, was in stable condition at the hospital’s detention centre.He is being charged with murder, Atlanta Police officer James Polite said.Sapa-dpa-APThe woman suffered only minor injuries after the 20cm heap cushioned her fall, said the agency.Workers had been dredging the tank after complaints by local residents, it said. * CNN staff flee after shooting ATLANTA – Gunfire at the CNN Centre sent employees and visitors to the landmark scurrying for cover as a domestic dispute turned violent, leading to the fatal shooting of a hotel employee and the wounding of her former boyfriend.Police said the couple argued inside the lobby of the Omni Hotel, which is part of the CNN complex in downtown Atlanta, then he dragged her down an escalator and shot her.A CNN security guard who witnessed the altercation then shot the man, critically wounding him as lunchtime wound down on Tuesday.”All of a sudden we heard a big boom.We thought it was an explosion,” said Trina Johnson, 44, of Atlanta, who was with her daughter in the food court in the CNN atrium.”We didn’t see the gun.Everybody just started running.”The Omni employee was identified as Clara Riddles, 22, according to Caryn Kboudi, a spokesperson for the Irving, Texas-based Omni Hotel chain.Kboudi said Riddles checked and restocked mini-bars in the hotel rooms.She was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital after the shooting and was pronounced dead on arrival, hospital spokeperson Denise Simpson said.The man, identified by police as Arthur Mann, in his late 30s, was in stable condition at the hospital’s detention centre.He is being charged with murder, Atlanta Police officer James Polite said.Sapa-dpa-AP

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