Due to economic hardhip, many people in former war zones in SE Asia tamper with unexploded ordnance (UXO) tampering to sell the metal and the TNT. Below is the most recent story involving tampering that resulted in death and injury in Vietnam.
Xinhua General News Service
June 8, 2005 Wednesday 3:01 AM EST
SECTION: WORLD NEWS
LENGTH: 160 words
HEADLINE: Mine explosion kills father, injures daughter in Vietnam
DATELINE: HANOI
A 48-year-old man was killed on the spot and his daughter injured when a mine exploded in Vietnam's central Hue city, local newspaper Saigon Liberation reported Wednesday.
The explosion occurred on Tuesday when Le Phi, a scrap collector and ice-cream seller, was removing the charge of a mine with a large knife at his home.
His 16-year-old daughter got injured at her leg.
According to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund of the United States, during the Vietnam War from 1965-1975, the US Armed Forces deployed more than 15 million tons of bombs, mines, artillery shells and other ordnance in the country, in which ten percent did not detonate as designed.
Local scrap collectors often saw of unexploded ordnance (UXO) for metal and explosive, while small children play ammunitions by breaking them, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries annually. Now, there are over 300,000 tons of UXO in Vietnam, estimated local officials.
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