Over 1,500 wartime bullets found on China-Russia border

A Chinese villager in Heilongjiang Province, on the China-Russia border, has discovered a cache of 1,555 bullets left by Japanese troops decades ago.

Cui Xin from Yongchang Village, Jidong County, discovered two rotten wooden boxes on the banks of a river Tuesday, inside was the ammunition.

He informed the border police, who later announced that the bullets, weighing 47.5 kilograms, were still live.

The ammunition is believed to have been left by the Japanese troops during the Chinese war against Japanese aggression from 1937 to 1945. They have been passed on to the authorities. Endi