how gasoline catches fire

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1) It happened like how you saw.
2) He fell down like how a dead man falls.
3) His face turned red like how gasoline catches fire.

Are these sentences correct?
 
No. Remove "how" from 1 and 2. Rewrite 3. It doesn't make sense with or without "how".
 
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