Various explosive devices found at the construction site in Quang Tri (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)Quang Tri (VNA) – A team of the “Restoring the Environment and Neutralisingthe Effects of the War” (RENEW) project said it safely moved 590 explosivedevices from a construction site in the central province of Quang Tri.
The mission tookplace from October 10-11, right after the team received a report on explosivedevices from workers, who were building a guest house of Quang Tri town’smilitary high command at a location near the southern bank of Thach Han river.
At the site, theteam found many devices, including shells and mortar shells, at a depth of 2metres, with their detonators remained intact.
The devices weremoved to a safe site for defusing in Trieu Trach commune, Trieu Phong district.
RENEW, mainlysponsored by the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), aims to help Quang Tri, known asone of the provinces hardest hit by the war, settle post-war bomb and landmineimpacts.
To date, morethan 131 million square metres of land in Quang Tri province have been mappedout as confirmed hazardous areas that need full clearance. The NPA’s teams havedestroyed about 70,000 pieces of dangerous ordnance, helping to eliminate therisks of death and injury for local residents.-VNA
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