Girl in Vietnam napalm photo receives medical treatment for burns 50 years later
As Kim Phuc fled the aftermath of a napalm attack – her face agape in terror and pain – the nine-year-old unwittingly became a living symbol of the horrors of the Vietnam War. Some forty years later, the 52-year-old is receiving medical treatment for the wounds she suffered after the South Vietnamese military accidentally dropped napalm on civilians in Trang Bang village near Saigon. Mrs Phuc travelled from her home in Canada...
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