Two Exploded Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams from Peace Trees Vietnam haveremoved two cluster bombs in the central province of Quang Triprovince, the teams' head Nguyen Van Cuong told Vietnam News on March12.
The American bombs, discovered in Khe Sanh town, Huong Hoa district, each weighed 227kg and 114kg, respectively.
"The bombs' detonators have yet to be defused because they were buried nearly 3 metre underground,” Cuong said.
"These bombs are two of the heaviest we found. We have removed nineheavy bombs since last July." He said the bombs could blow up anddestroy everything within 30 metres.
Cuong said thetwo teams, totalling 24 members, dug up and removed hundreds ofunexploded ordnance (UXO) - bombs, grenade launchers, landmines andmortar shells - each day.
The teams have beenworking throughout the province to remove UXO, especially in remotemountainous areas such as Huong Hoa, Cam Lo, Gio Linh and Vinh Linh andDakrong –former sites of battles and the Demilitarised Zone during thewar.
Pham Thi Hoang Ha, of PeaceTrees Vietnam(PTVN), a non-government organisation that has been searching for UXO inQuang Tri since 1995, said EOD teams have found over 106,513 pieces ofunexploded ordnances and cleared 163ha of land contaminated bylandmines.
The PTVN's Danaan Parry LandminesEducation Centre in Dong Ha has provided landmine awareness education tomore than 65,000 people in Quang Tri, 17,500 of them are children.
Only 11 of the 3,500 villages in Quang Tri avoided being hit by bombs until the American War ended in 1975.
Vietnam was subjected to 15 million bombs, mines, artilleryshells and other munitions. As much as 10 percent of these ordnances areestimated to have failed to explode.-VNA
The American bombs, discovered in Khe Sanh town, Huong Hoa district, each weighed 227kg and 114kg, respectively.
"The bombs' detonators have yet to be defused because they were buried nearly 3 metre underground,” Cuong said.
"These bombs are two of the heaviest we found. We have removed nineheavy bombs since last July." He said the bombs could blow up anddestroy everything within 30 metres.
Cuong said thetwo teams, totalling 24 members, dug up and removed hundreds ofunexploded ordnance (UXO) - bombs, grenade launchers, landmines andmortar shells - each day.
The teams have beenworking throughout the province to remove UXO, especially in remotemountainous areas such as Huong Hoa, Cam Lo, Gio Linh and Vinh Linh andDakrong –former sites of battles and the Demilitarised Zone during thewar.
Pham Thi Hoang Ha, of PeaceTrees Vietnam(PTVN), a non-government organisation that has been searching for UXO inQuang Tri since 1995, said EOD teams have found over 106,513 pieces ofunexploded ordnances and cleared 163ha of land contaminated bylandmines.
The PTVN's Danaan Parry LandminesEducation Centre in Dong Ha has provided landmine awareness education tomore than 65,000 people in Quang Tri, 17,500 of them are children.
Only 11 of the 3,500 villages in Quang Tri avoided being hit by bombs until the American War ended in 1975.
Vietnam was subjected to 15 million bombs, mines, artilleryshells and other munitions. As much as 10 percent of these ordnances areestimated to have failed to explode.-VNA
