The World - News from June 3, 1985
Vietnamese armed forces and civilians killed 288 Chinese troops who crossed the Sino-Vietnamese border, Hanoi radio reported. The broadcast, monitored in Bangkok, said the Chinese conducted 12 “land-grabbing operations” after firing nearly 50,000 artillery rounds in northern Ha Tuyen province but were repulsed by the Vietnamese. China and Vietnam fought a brief border war in the same area in early 1979.
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