diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9a8a6a02de..0508bf3585 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+5.0.0-dev.70 | 2022-01-25 13:52:00 -0700
+
+  * bug fix for vector slice assignment (Vern Paxson, Corelight)
+
 5.0.0-dev.67 | 2022-01-25 12:25:48 +0000
 
   * updated Bro->Zeek in comments in the source tree (Vern Paxson, Corelight)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a5f6be50a5..d8bca667ce 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.0.0-dev.67
+5.0.0-dev.70
diff --git a/src/Val.cc b/src/Val.cc
index d476f32a6c..fa6b5934dd 100644
--- a/src/Val.cc
+++ b/src/Val.cc
@@ -3326,19 +3326,10 @@ bool VectorVal::Insert(unsigned int index, ValPtr element)
 	auto n = vector_val->size();
 
 	if ( index < n )
-		{ // May need to delete previous element
+		{ // Find location within existing vector elements.
 		it = std::next(vector_val->begin(), index);
 		if ( yield_types )
-			{
-			if ( *it )
-				ZVal::DeleteIfManaged(**it, element->GetType());
 			types_it = std::next(yield_types->begin(), index);
-			}
-		else if ( managed_yield )
-			{
-			if ( *it )
-				ZVal::DeleteManagedType(**it);
-			}
 		}
 	else
 		{
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-slice-assign/out b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-slice-assign/out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d494ea9828
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.vector-slice-assign/out
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+### BTest baseline data generated by btest-diff. Do not edit. Use "btest -U/-u" to update. Requires BTest >= 0.63.
+[[seq=4], [seq=5], [seq=3], [seq=1], [seq=2], [seq=6], [seq=7]]
diff --git a/testing/btest/language/vector-slice-assign.zeek b/testing/btest/language/vector-slice-assign.zeek
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dcf4b5537f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/btest/language/vector-slice-assign.zeek
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# @TEST-EXEC: zeek -b %INPUT >out
+# @TEST-EXEC: btest-diff out
+
+type testrec: record {
+	seq: count;
+};
+
+function make_recs(seqs: vector of count): vector of testrec
+{
+	local r: vector of testrec;
+	for (i in seqs)
+		r += testrec($seq=seqs[i]);
+	return r;
+}
+
+event zeek_init()
+{
+	local seqs: vector of count = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7};
+	local v = make_recs(seqs);
+	local tmp = v[0:2];
+	v[0:2] = v[3:5];
+	v[3:5] = tmp;
+	print v;
+}