Vietnam defence minister returns to Vietnam [DPA]

[I]25 July 2015[/I]

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Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnamese Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh returned to Hanoi on Saturday after receiving medical treatment in France, an army official said.

"The minister returned to Hanoi from Paris this morning on a Vietnam Airlines flight and he left the airport directly for the office to start work," Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, told dpa.

An earlier dpa report mistakenly reported that the general had died after receiving treatment at a Paris hospital, citing a source at the hospital.

A photograph by local media showed Thanh walking to a car at the airport.[/QUOTE]