A 40-year-old man was killed and another injured when an artillery shell exploded in Vietnam's central Quang Ngai province, according to local newspaper Young People on Monday.
The explosion occurred in Duc Pho district on Sunday morning when the man named Do Tien Tuan was sawing the shell for explosive and metal.
According to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund of the United States, during the Vietnam War from 1965-1975, the U.S. Armed Forces deployed more than 15 million tons of bombs, mines, artillery shells and other ordnance in the country, in which 10 percent did not detonate as designed.
Local officials estimated there are over 300,000 tons of unexploded ordnance in Vietnam.
Source: Xinhua
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