Projectile

Projectile event in Quang Tri, Tien Kim area, Viet Nam on Thu 25th June 2015

25th June 2015

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Col. Bui Trong Hong, retired military officer and National Technical Advisor for RENEW, said a 20-cm x 15mm thick fragment found at the bottom of the explosion pit confirmed that the ordnance was a type of projectile, caliber between 127 to 155mm. Col. Hong said the victim might have struck the ordnance while he was working, he might have dropped it if he had attempted to move it, a number of things could have caused the explosion. Because there were no witnesses, there is no way to know exactly what happened.

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Quang Tri ( Tien Kim area )

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