A total of 677 chemical weapons have been found in Suihua City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, from June 26 to July 2.

Around 600 of the 677 were discovered on July 1, said Liu Yiren, head of the office in charge of abandoned weapons with the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

The weapons have been initially identified as having been abandoned by Japanese troops at the end of World War II.

The batch of chemical weapons have been transferred to a safe place near the discovery site.

On Wednesday, a team of experts from Japan and China began to excavate a pit at Ning'an City of Heilongjiang Province, recovering 31 Japanese bombs with seven confirmed to be chemical weapons.

The Foreign Ministry said Japan abandoned at least two million tons of chemical weapons in China. More than 2,000 Chinese people have been killed by abandoned chemical weapons since the war ended in 1945.

Source: Xinhua