Updated Tuesday, April 15, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AP

17 sets of remains found in southern Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam -- Authorities have discovered a mass grave in southern Vietnam believed to contain remains of communist fighters killed by French colonial occupiers during a failed prison escape, an official said Monday. A woman uncovered 17 sets of remains last Tuesday as she dug a foundation for her house on the former site of a French prison in Luong Hoa Lac village, Tien Giang province, said Vo Van Hung, the village chief. The remains were likely those of communist fighters killed by the French during a failed escape from the prison in early 1949, Hung said.
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