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Letter #57/HD.4 with "FLASH" precedence, dated [missing] Apr 67, from the Mil Affairs Committed Tn Tru Dist Unit, Long An Prov, to PR.10 and various Vills, provides following instructions concerning the laying of minefields, spike-pits and grenade traps: To meet bas requirements, minefields and spike-pits should be established in the following areas: Arch 1 Lac Tan Vill, on a dirt road leading to 2 Gao, Que y Thanh Vi, on the dikes and in ricefields. From Que My Thanh to 6 De's home (in Lac Tan Vill) Area 2: Tan Duc School, War Dead Monument, arches, a number of breastworks, and on the road leading to Ten Duc Communal house and down to Nhut Tho Market. Document further reveals that after the establishment of minefields and spike-pits, the addressees were advised to notify the inhabitants, cadre and personnel in charge of the locations of the mined areas to avoid accidents. In addition, the people and guerrillas should be motivated to prepare combat trenches and fortifications, and instructed to assume combat missions and secure the above dangerous areas to guard the people's and soldiers' lives before the "enemy" is killed. Document also cites that in Tan Phude Try, Binh Trinh Dong and Lae Tan, and especially in Tan Phude Ty, when mines were laid along the road from Chy The to lige Tu and C Dip Hamlet, on 4 Apr 67, a water-buffalo hit a mine at C The and was killed.