This is not at all unusual for the North Vietnamese. Another example of their callousness was on the wire services today. It reads as follows: SAmoN.-Communist troops opened fire today on a ragged column of 1.000 refugees fleeing the provincial capital of An Loc and killed 12 oivilians and wounded 30. field reports said. Newsmen who reached the scene shortly after the attack said the communists fired a barrage of mortars onto Highway 13 while the refugees were trying to flee from An Loa. 60 miles north of Saigon. A government relief force broke through to An Loo Monday and refugees who had beer living there during the siege began streaming southward. They had escaped death by living in underground shelters while thousands of rounds of shells crashed overhead. The reports said the refugeesmainly old men. women and childrenran down the highway as the mortars screamed into them and the chunks of shrapnel flew through the air. One old woman. shrapnel cuts across her body. died in the arms of her young granddaughter. the reports said. They said a young boy. hit by shrapnel in his head. was cradled in the arms of his parents while the South Vietnamese medic tried to stop the bleeding.
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