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Blasts hit Corsica after voters reject government reform plan

Blasts hit Corsica after voters reject government reform plan

PARIS, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Four vacant holiday residences on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica were blown up overnight after voters narrowly rejected a reform plan to give more autonomy to the island in Sunday's referendum.

The destroyed homes, belonging to French people, were seen by Corsican separatists as symbols of France's presence on the island.

The separatists, who have been engaged in three decades of violence to protest against the French control of the island, took Sunday's referendum result as a failure for their struggle to get self-rule.

The referendum was on a local institutions reform plan proposed by ...

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