Vietnam - Playing with shrapnel bombs, four kids injured

VietNamNet Bridge – Four students of a junior secondary school in Chi Doan Commune, Doan Hung district in the northern midland province of Phu Tho were injured in a fragmentation bomb explosion on the morning of February 22.


Doan Hung district’s Chairman Nguyen Dinh Thu told VietNamNet that two students: Tran Minh Thanh and Tran Minh Dat – collected two shrapnel bombs on the bank of Chay River on the afternoon of February 21. They brought the bombs to class the next morning.

In the morning of February 22, a classmate of Thanh and Dat, named Duong, threw a bomb onto a thick branch on the school-yard. The bomb exploded and wounded four students who were playing around the tree.

After the incident, sappers defused the remaining bomb.

Local people said that the riverbank where students collected the two bombs was a wharf in the Vietnam War, where was bombed a lot.

Local residents have detected many bombs and mines there. 

Xuan Cam


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