QuangTri (VNA) - Sappers with the Military High Command in the centralprovince of Quang Tri on May 18 successfully deactivated and removed a hugebomb left over from wartime that was found in the Thach Han River.
TheMK 82 bomb was 1.5 metres in length, 230 kg in weight, and 27 cm in diameter, andhad a detonator.
Itwas discovered at a depth of 3 metres by a local man who was fishing about 10metres from the river bank.
QuangTri is the most polluted locality in Vietnam in terms of unexploded ordnance(UXO), which are scattered over 81 percent of its land area and have killedover 3,430 people and injured 5,100 during peacetime./.
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