Vietnam buries remains of more than 200 soldiers killed in Laos

Vietnam buries remains of more than 200 soldiers killed in Laos

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HANOI : The remains of more than 200 Vietnamese soldiers killed in
Laos during the Vietnam War have been brought home and buried with
full military honours, the army said.

The decomposed bodies of 162 soldiers, who were repatriated to Vietnam
in November last year, were laid to rest at the Viet-Lao Friendship
cemetery on Saturday in the central province of Nghe An, the military
command there said.

Forty-five sets of remains were also buried Sunday at the Ba Doc
cemetery in the central Quang Binh province after a state funeral.

As many as 2,000 soldiers killed in Laos have been repatriated to
Vietnam since the end of the Indochina conflict in 1975, according to
state media.

Vietnam maintains close relations with its impoverished western
neighbour. Hanoi-aided communist Path...

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