Handling the shells

PANO – 1,067 shells, including unexploded ones, were found on March 15th on a road in Lao Bao town, Quang Tri province’s Huong Hoa district, by local militiamen and residents, announced the Military Command of the district.

On receiving the information, the military command sent its officers to the scene and the mobile bomb and mine detection and clearance teams of Quang Tri province, under the Peace Tree Vietnam Organization, immediately came to defuse the unexploded shells.

By 3.30pm, all the shells had been successfully defused.

Translated by Son Ca