On Feb. 11, 1957, at 7 o'clock in the evening, a command car (6) which usually drove Xuan to see Ho stopped at the front of the house. Ninh, nickname Ninh Xom (Shaggy Ninh), Ho's bodyguard, told Xuan: "Come to see uncle Ho." She got dressed, wore some perfume then got in the car. Ta Quang Chien (a member of Ho bodyguard team, later became the deputy director of the General Department of Gymnastics and Sports) drove the car away. In the next morning, Feb. 12, a Hanoi public security cadre came to inform that Xuan was killed in an auto accident, her body was at the dead house in the Phu Doan hospital. Hurriedly, Vang gave the boy to Nguyet, got in the public security car for the Hospital, but she was not permitted to get inside the dead house. After about one hour, a doctor came out, read a report that generally said: the corpse bore no wound, no sign of beating or cutting. Internal examination found no wound on the insides, no poison in the stomach, no sperm inside the uterus as a sign of rape. Only the top of her skull was cracked, a liquid oozed out. The doctor said the victim could have been enveloped in a blanket then hit by a hammer right on her crown. After that, Vang rushed home to tell Nguyet. Both were crying.
