One of the first photos taken of Phan Thi Kim Phuc's back before the laser treatments. Photos: TNS
The subject of the famous Vietnam War photograph showing her fleeing a napalm attack received the last in a series of laser skin treatments designed to heal the scars that stretch from her hairline, down her back and up her left arm.
In the 1972 Pulitzer Prize winning photo by AP photographer Nick Ut, the nine-year-old runs down a road naked, screaming, as napalm dropped by a South Vietnamese plane scorches her body.
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