Quang Binh(VNA) – The People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Binh held a memorialand reburial ceremony on May 9 for 18 set of remains of Vietnamese voluntarysoldiers and experts who laid down their lives in battlefields in Laos duringwartime.
The ceremony drewrepresentatives of the Special Working Committees of the Lao Government andKhammoane province, Laos’ Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, and leaders ofthe Military Zone 4 and Quang Binh province of Vietnam, among others.
The sets of remainswere searched and gathered by Team 589 under the Military Headquarters of QuangBinh province with the support from Khammoane province’s Labour and SocialWelfare Department and Military Headquarters and Lao people.
They were sent home inthe first repatriation of this year during the 2017-2018 dry season.
Participants at theceremony offered flowers and incense to the martyrs, showing gratitude to themartyrs who sacrificed their live for the liberation of Laos.
The remains wereburied in Ba Doc Martyrs’ Cemetery in Dong Hoi city of Quang Binh.
In May last year,Quang Binh also held a reburial ceremony for 26 sets of remains of Vietnamesesoldiers and experts who died in Laos. They were unearthed during the 2016-2017dry season.-VNA