Chemical Weapons Abandoned by Japan
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-07-06 08:55
![Huang Shunxiang, digs out a bomb at an excavation site of World War Two chemical weapons abandoned by Japan, in Ning'an, China's Heilongjiang province, July 5, 2006. The two countries disagree on the scale of corroding weapons left behind by Japan's army after the World War, with China saying there are 2 million shells to be dealt with, while Japan puts the figure in the hundreds of thousands. [Reuters]](xin_34070306085151425542.jpg)
An expert from the Japanese Abandoned Chemical Weapons Office packs a bomb
dug out and marked at an excavation site of World War II
chemical weapons abandoned by Japan, in Ning'an, China's Heilongjiang province, July 5, 2006.
The joint Chinese-Japanese team was preparing Wednesday to excavate abandoned Japanese poison gas
bombs from World War II that were buried near a school after a factory received
them as scrap metal. [Reuters]
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