  During more than 3 years (August 1996-October 1999) monitoring of a 40x40
degree sky region around the Galactic Centre by the Wide Field Cameras on board
BeppoSAX, a total of 8 type-I bursts have been detected from a sky position
consistent with that of 4U 1812-12, a likely neutron-star low-mass X-ray
binary. We present the results of a detailed study of the bursts of 4U 1812-12,
about 15 years after the last reported observations of X-ray bursts from this
source (Murakami et al. 1983). Clear evidence for photospheric radius expansion
due to Eddington-limited burst luminosity is present in most of the observed
events, allowing an accurate estimate of the source distance (~4 kpc) and its
burst parameters.
