Long An: The provincial Steering Committee for search, collection and identification of fallen soldiers’ remains (Steering Committee 515) in the Mekong Delta province of Long An on January 25 held a ceremony at Binh Hiep international border gate to receive 34 boxes of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in the battlefields in Cambodia during wartime.

The remains were found in Cambodia’s Pailin, Battambang and Svay provinces during the first phase in the 2023-2024 dry season. Search activities were conducted at 62 locations, and the construction of an area to worship and keep remains of Vietnamese soldiers and experts in the Pailin military sub-region started.

Since 2001, a team in charge of the work has searched, gathered and repatriated remains of 2,401 martyrs./.

Source: Vietnam News Agency