Chinese and Japanese experts Friday completed sealing chemical
weapons left by Japanese troops during the Chinese people's war
against Japanese aggression (1937-1945) in Qiqihar City of Heilongjiang
Province, northeast China.
Since early this month, the experts have sealed 724 pieces of
chemical weapons, along with five barrels of mustard gas which were
dug up at a construction site in the city on Aug. 4, and killed one
person and injured 43 others.
Each chemical weapon has been packed in layers of special soft
materials, and put into a specific metal container. No accidents or
environmental pollution have been reported during the whole
process.
The sealed chemical weapons will be destroyed when a
professional destruction center is ready in the city, said Chinese
officials responsible for handling chemical weapons the Japanese
abandoned in China.
According to a treaty between the two countries,
Japanese-abandoned chemical weapons that have been found in China
should be destroyed before the year 2007.
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(Xinhua News Agency November 29, 2003)