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Chemical Weapons Abandoned by Japan
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-07-06 08:55

An expert from the Japanese Abandoned Chemical Weapons Office packs a bomb dug out and marked 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.

An expert from the Office of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Chemical Weapons Abandoned by Japan in China, and soldiers, pack bombs dug out 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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