While digging the foundations for a home meant to house the engineer platoon under the province’s Military Command in Cua Tung Town of Vinh Linh District, authorities uncovered a stash of unexploded ordnance, including 30 artillery shells weighing from 25 to 117 kilograms, 100 detonators, and 20 detonated mines.

A staff measures bombs at a disposal site in Quang Tri Provice, August 2, 2021.

On Monday, all the explosives were moved to a safe disposal site.

From 1954 to 1972, Ben Hai River in Quang Tri was a temporary demarcation line between the south and north Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Quang Tri, as a result, suffered the most bombings throughout the war that lasted from 1955 to 1975, with 83 percent of its area contaminated by explosive remnants of war.

Bac Giang: Lang Son bombax ceiba recognized as ancient tree with historical-cultural value

(BGO) – A bombax ceiba standing next to Ba Co (Ms. Co) shrine in Tan My village, Lang Son commune, Yen Dung district (Bac Giang province) has officially become "the ancient tree of historical-cultural value".

Workers unearth 300 kilo war bomb with intact detonator

Workers using an excavator to dig a freshwater lake in the southern Kien Giang Province found a 300 kg bomb with its detonator intact Saturday.

War legacy: large bomb found in downtown Hanoi

Construction workers Saturday found a 350 kg intact bomb while excavating a site on Hanoi’s Cua Bac Street.

Filipino on Hanoi-HCMC flight arrested after bomb claim

A Filipino man was detained at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport Thursday after screaming there was a bomb in the plane headed for HCMC.

Central province blocks off highway to dispose of 300-kg bomb

Authorities in Quang Binh Province banned all vehicles from Highway 9B for nine days after a war-time bomb weighing 300 kg was unearthed by severe flooding.

Source: VnExpress