MACABRE FIND
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) VIENTIANE, Nov. 3. The charred bodies of two women, thought to be American missionaries, have been found with their hands tied behind their backs in the smouldering ruins of Kengkok, a town in southern Laos. The bodies are believed to be those of Evelyn Anderson, aged 25, and Beatrice Kosin, aged 35, both members of the Swiss Brethren, who were captured on Saturday, along with another American and a Canadian, when Pathet Lao troops seized the town, 205 miles south-east of Vientiane. An American woman working with the Public Health Service in Laos, Dr Patricia McCreedy, who made a preliminary postmortem examination of the bodies, said that they were too badly burned for identification, but they were Caucasian bodies of about the same build as the missing women.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33065, 4 November 1972, Page 15
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