Hanoi protests after ‘attack’
NZPA-Reuter Bangkok! Vietnam has claimed that; a battalion of the Chinese' Army has “ravaged” a Viet-! namese village 4km from the; Sino-Vietnamese border. i The official Radio Hanoi, I monitored in Bangkok, said, a Note handed to the Chinese Government by Viet-1 nam’s Foreign Ministry stated that Coc Pang village had been attacked.last Mon-, day. Chinese forces had first, mortared an area in the village and, 12 hours later, a “well armed battalion of Chinese Regular Army” crossed the border and raided the area, the Note alleged. “They killed, burned, looted, and destroyed crops”; but Vietnamese armed forces I had managed to repulse the, Chinese troops the same day, the Note said.
The next day, the village had been shelled by the Chinese again, but no further intrusion had been reported, it said.
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