Nearly a half century after the Ho Chi Minh Trail was first put into use during wartime, RENEW teams are still destroying unexploded ordnance found along the route. Today 19 items including aerial bombs, projectiles, rocket warheads and...
RENEW's EOD Team No.1 on Thursday safely removed over 30 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) including 60mm mortars and recoilless projectiles from a pine forest in Phu Hung Village of Hai Phu Commune, Hai Lang District.
Gio Linh, Quang Tri (26 July 2016)— RENEW teams on Tuesday removed three 500-pound US-made aerial bombs from Gio Linh District Police headquarters after responding to the emergency call from police officers. Escorted by a police convoy, the teams...
Following local people’s directions, CST team members found a U.S. Navy shell submerged in the waters about 10 meters from the shore. The shell may have been fired from one of the U.S. destroyers deployed along the coast...
On Monday morning, members of the Cluster Munitions Remnants Survey Team (CMRS) No.9 uncovered some tubes that contained unexploded cluster munitions while conducting technical operations to map out contaminated land for clearance. The tubes were exposed at the depth...
A total of 16 items of unexploded ordnance were safely destroyed today by an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from Project RENEW in a rice paddy at Co Luy Village in Hai Ba Commune, Quang Tri Province. The...
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...
Survey and clearance operations will be implemented until 2020 to identify contaminated land that needs clearance in Quang Tri Province. Meanwhile, it is important that EOD capacity also be sustained as a key part of overall risk management...
Once part of the McNamara Line and a corner of what became known as Leatherneck Square where some of the heaviest fighting of the Vietnam War was fought, Gio Linh District has now been included in RENEW’s humanitarian mine...
Cam Lo, Quang Tri (28 April 2016) – A cluster bomb uncovered by local bricklayers who were building a new house in An Hung Village of Cam Lo Townlet was destroyed in place by an EOD team managed by...