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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent

‘Napalm girl’ Phan Thi Kim Phuc receives final burn treatment after 50 years

Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Phuc spent more than a year in hospital recovering, and has lived with continual pain and limited movement. Photograph: Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images

Phan Thi Kim Phuc, whose photograph became a symbol of the horrors of the Vietnam war, has had her final skin treatment with a burn specialist, 50 years after her village was struck by napalm.

Phuc was photographed aged nine as she ran, unclothed and screaming in agony, after napalm was dropped by a South Vietnamese Skyraider attack aircraft. Nick Ut, the photographer who captured the image in June 1972, drove her away to find medical treatment.

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