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Monday, 22 December, 1997, 10:53 GMT
Iran/Iraq exchange soldiers' remains

Iran and Iraq have exchanged more remains of soldiers killed during their eight year war.

Reports from Tehran say the remains of seven Iranians and thirty-seven Iraqis were handed over at a ceremony on the Iran-Iraq border.

The two countries have already exchanged more than seventy-five thousand prisoners of war, ()

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