WORLD : MIA Teams in Vietnam Identify 20 Sets of American Remains
Joint U.S.-Vietnamese teams searching for American soldiers killed during the Southeast Asia conflict have found 20 sets of American remains in central Vietnam, the Hanoi government said today.
A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said experts had found 70 sets of human remains since they began their latest search earlier this month.
Twenty sets have been tested and confirmed as American. The 50 others have not yet been tested, she told reporters.
The U.S. experts arrived in Hanoi on Aug. 6 for the 11th joint search since Hanoi and Washington began official cooperation in 1987 on American servicemen missing in action.
A total of 240 sets of remains have been repatriated since 1987, of which 100 have been positively identified.
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