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

Chinese and Japanese chemical weapons experts in
protective clothing dig up abandoned poison gas bombs in a pit in Ning'an,
northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, Wednesday, 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. [AP Photo]
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