Excavator hit by bomb on Nhat Le river bank

Quang Binh While driving an excavator to dredge the banks of Nhat Le River, Mr. Le Huu Duc suddenly dug up a 230 kg MK82 bomb with the fuse still intact.

The bomb was discovered by Mr. Duc on the afternoon of April 4 while dredging the Nhat Le River bank, through Dong Hoi City, to build an embankment. At first, Mr. Duc thought it was scrap metal or a piece of a boat, but when he dug it up, it turned out to be a bomb.

Having driven an excavator for 20 years and having dug up bombs left over from the war, Mr. Duc was still surprised by the large bomb, more than 2 meters long and nearly 30 cm in diameter.

The bomb was found on the embankment of Nhat Le River. Photo: Van An

The bomb is located close to the Nhat Le river embankment, in the center of Dong Hoi city, where the population density and traffic are high. Ships also anchor close to this embankment every day.

The project investor, the Department of Tourism of Quang Binh province, then requested to temporarily stop construction, move machinery, equipment and human resources out of the area where the bomb was discovered and reported to the provincial Military Command.

Today, the bomb disposal organization MAG and the Military Command of Quang Binh province brought the bomb to the warehouse, waiting for centralized destruction. The bomb, coded MK82, still had the fuse intact, with a lethal radius of nearly one kilometer.

During the war, Quang Binh was severely bombed by the US Air Force. The Nhat Le River section through Dong Hoi City was one of the places that suffered the most bombing.

Vo Thanh

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