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Kinmen bed and breakfast manager Steve Lee was still a child when China intermittently shelled the Kinmen archipelago.

Kinmen bed and breakfast manager Steve Lee was still a child when China intermittently shelled the Kinmen archipelago.

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Lifting a rug in the guest room, Kinmen bed and breakfast manager Steve Lee unveiled something underneath – a trapdoor leading to an underground bunker.

The door, which opens to a flight of steep steps, is just wide enough to fit one person at a time.

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