Fourth Recovery Round Ends
04 August, 2004
Laos-US POW/MIA group ends fourth round of search
Vientiane (VNA) - A Laos-US POW/MIA working group has wrapped up their fourth round of searching for American personnel listed as missing in Laos, according to the Lao Foreign Ministry.
During the search, from June 26 to July 28, they accounted for remains and belongings of American servicemen who died in action and pieces of crashed planes in two provinces.
Since 1985, the group has conducted 90 rounds of searches, repatriating to the US 198 sets of remains of the total 569 US personnel reported as dead or missing in Laos.
©Vietnam News Agency
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