Quang Tri, Vietnam (5 November 2025) – A Quang Tri family narrowly escaped injury late Friday afternoon when an explosion occurred in their rice field, just five meters from their house in Le Xuyen Village, Nam Cua Viet Commune....
A man was killed in Quang Tri Province on Monday, May 13th, 2024, when a wartime munition exploded. The incident occurred around midday in Hien Thanh Commune, Vinh Linh District. The victim, a 34-year-old resident of Liem Cong Phuong...
Even a near-perfect record of no UXO accidents over a period of years cannot be sustained forever. Explosive ordnance accidents can still happen in Quang Tri, and they do — another one this week. The second accident of 2022 — and the...
An accident caused by explosive remnants of war around 13:30, Wednesday, February 16, 2022, killed a man who resided in Phuong An 1 Village of Cam Nghia Commune, Cam Lo District, Quang Tri Province. The neighbors rushed to the...
A mechanic narrowly escaped serious injury from a mortar fragment in an explosion at his workshop on Sunday. The explosion, which occurred around 4:30 p.m., shook the entire coastal village of Trung An in Hai Khe Village, Hai Lang...
A cluster bomb explosion in Quang Tri Province has killed one deminer and injured another, both technical staff managed by Project RENEW and Norwegian People's Aid (NPA). The accident occurred on Wednesday, 18 May, in Co Luy Village...
23-year-old Tran Van Du was digging holes to prepare for planting acacia seedlings when his hoe hit an unidentified item of ordnance that detonated, shredding the blade of his hoe and causing a two-centimeter cut to his left leg...
An explosion of wartime ordnance on Tuesday afternoon killed a 42-year-old farmer and father of three young children in Trung Son Commune of Gio Linh District, Quang Tri Province. The exact circumstances of the tragedy are unknown. As breadwinner...
An ordnance explosion last Friday morning critically injured a 17-year-old boy, Tran Van Hoan, in Hoan Cat Village, Cam Nghia Commune of Cam Lo District.
Five adults were seriously injured when a piece of wartime ordnance accidentally exploded at 10 o’clock on Saturday morning at a scrap yard in Village 9, Trieu Van Commune. The explosion occurred as workers were loading scrap materials onto...