Clinic releases Kim Phuc
NZPA-AP Ludwigshafen Kim Phuc, known as the Vietnamese "napalm girl,” has been released from a West German clinic after treatment for intense pain from burns suffered 12 years ago. “The pains have stopped,” Kim Phuc, aged 21, told reporters at the Ludwig Gattman clinic in Ludwigshafen, near Heidelberg, where she underwent surgery. Cystic scars were still visible on much of her left arm, but she said the operation — a combination of skin grafts and incisions in the scar tissue — made it
easier to move. “I can move my arm and head more easily. I think I will be able to continue my medical studies now,” she said, speaking through a translator. Kim Phuc, whose full name is Phan Thi Kim Phuc, became known to many as the “napalm girl” after she was photographed running naked and screaming from an attack on her South Vietnamese village in 1972. The photograph became one of the Vietnam War’s most haunting images and won a Pulitzer Prize for its Associated Press photographer, Nick Ut.
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