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30-10-2001
Six children in Vietnam were killed and two injured, one seriously, when a Vietnam War-era mortar shell exploded in a rice field in the southern Khanh Hoa province.
The Chairman of the People's Committee in the town of Dien Khanh in Hoa province, 450km north of Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Van Dong, said the shell exploded as the children were trying to defuse it to sell as scrap iron. He said the eight boys - all between 10 - 15 years old - found the mortar shell at a former army barracks.
In a separate incident, three boys aged from five to 10 were injured on October 28, 2001 when a shell they were playing with exploded at the site of a former US base in the southern province of Dong Nai. The Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Rural Today) newspaper said the three were taken to hospital with multiple injuries.
Thousands of people have been killed or maimed by left-over munitions
since the end of the Vietnam War, in 1975. Explosions of left-over ordnance
from the war kill and maim dozens of people a year, most of them children.
Source: http://www.geocities.com/hoan_kiem/11-2001/VN-mortarkills.html
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