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Vietnamese soldier killed by illegal loggers

HANOI - A Vietnamese soldier has been killed and a forest ranger wounded while pursuing illegal loggers in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, police said Friday. Sergeant Vu Van Quang, 21, was deliberately run down Wednesday by a truck driven by illegal loggers after giving chase on his motorcycle, police said.

A forest ranger, Nguyen Van Vay, was also seriously injured while trying to stop the truck, police said. The truck carrying a load of illegally felled logs was eventually stopped after its rear tires were shot out. Two illegal loggers were arrested while another two escaped. Twelve forest rangers have been killed and 490 wounded by illegal loggers during the past five years according to official statistics published in the Vietnamese press. A local police chief in Ha Tinh province and his five-year-old daughter were also killed in a bomb blast blamed on an illegal logger.

Agence France Presse - December 1st, 2000.