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

Chinese soldiers dig for chemical weapons abandoned by Japanese troops during World War Two, 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 World War Two, with China saying there are 2 million shells to be dealt with, while Japan puts the figure in the hundreds of thousands.

Chinese soldiers dig for chemical weapons abandoned by Japanese troops during World War II, 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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