Mine
Mine event in Lam Dong Province, Viet Nam on Wed 27th March 2019
27th March 2019
HANOI, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A 39-year old man from Vietnam's central highlands Lam Dong province died on Wednesday when a wartime bomb he was sawing to get its explosive exploded. The victim named Ly Van Tuan, who had found the unexploded bomb when digging a well, died instantly when it exploded at his house in Lam Ha district, Vietnam News Agency reported. During the 1965-1975 Vietnam War, the U.S. Armed Forces deployed more than 15 million tons of bombs, mines, artillery shells and other ordnance in Vietnam, in which 10 percent did not detonate as designed, according to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund of the United States. Vietnamese scrap collectors often saw unexploded ordnance for metal and explosive, while small children play ammunitions by breaking them, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries annually.
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