A dangerous 115-kilogram bomb was successfully defused in Binh Dinh, one of Vietnam's provinces, which along with Quang Binh was one of the most explosive-contaminated provinces during the war of the 1960s and 1970s.
The device, about a meter long and almost 30 centimeters in diameter, was discovered today by workers leveling the ground at the Go Cay industrial complex in Tay Son district, in this area in the center of the country, according to the VNA news agency.
Engineers from the Binh Dinh Military Command were tasked with taking the bomb to a military unit's training camp in Binh Thanh township on Wednesday to defuse it in accordance with regulations.
Experts say most of the 7.5 million tons of bombs and mines dropped during the conflict in Indochina in the 1960s and 1970s fell on Vietnam. About a fifth of the territory remains contaminated with unexploded explosives.
The Vietnamese government has committed to ending mine and unexploded ordnance accidents by 2025, a commitment in which it draws on the cooperation of South Korea's International Cooperation Agency and the United Nations Development Program.
In the last three years, 17,000 hectares of land, the equivalent of 20,000 football fields, have been inspected in Vietnam and 10,000 contaminated hectares have been cleared of unexploded ordnance.
(With information from Prensa Latina)