LAOS: AFTERMATH OF BOMB ATTACK ON NORTH VIETNAMESE CONSULATE IN VIENTIANE.

Record ID: 355177

  • Title: LAOS: AFTERMATH OF BOMB ATTACK ON NORTH VIETNAMESE CONSULATE IN VIENTIANE.
  • Date: 21st January 1968
  • Summary: NORTH VIETNAMESE CONSULATE WITH FLAG; COURTYARD DAMAGE; CONSULATE. Initials IF/VS/BHH/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th February 1968 12:00
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  • Location: VIENTIANE, LAOS
  • Country: Laos
  • Reuters ID: LVA548QA1G1049UY3JFPM4OEMH2F
  • Story Text: THE NORTH VIETNAMESE CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN VIENTIANE, MR. BUU VINH, FILED A PROTEST WITH THE LAOTIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ON THURSDAY LAST (18 JANUARY) AFTER A BOMB EXPLOSION SCARRED THE COURTYARD OF THE NORTH VIETNAMESE CONSULATE IN THE LAOTIAN ADMINISTRATIVE CAPITAL.

    THE INCIDENT CAME ON THE HEELS OF A ROYAL LAOTIAN ARMY DEFEAT AT NAM BAG, WHICH THE LAOTIANS CLAIM WAS INFLICTED BY NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS. ACCORDING TO MR. LE VEN THIEN, SECOND SECRETARY OF THE EMBASSY, NO ONE WAS INJURED, BUT THE BLAST SCARRED WALLS AND SMASHED WINDOWS.

    MOVES TO PROTECT THE VULNERABLE ROYAL CAPITAL OF LUANG PRABANG CONTINUE, WITH REPORTS OF FURTHER TROOP MOVEMENTS TO COUNTER ALLEGED NORTH VIETNAMESE PRESSURE FROM THE NORTH.
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