60 Japan-abandoned bombs unearthed in NE China (Xinhua) Updated: 2006-07-07 23:00
Twenty-one of the sixty Japanese bombs unearthed on Thursday in Ning'an City,
northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, have been confirmed to contain deadly
chemicals.
No chemicals have leaked from the bombs, sources with the office in charge of
abandoned weapons at the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Friday.
Experts from China and Japan began on Wednesday excavating the pit at the
Ning'an Chemical and Light Industry Company were they expected to recover about
200 bombs.
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