Mine Action ALERT: 17-Year-Old Boy In Critical Condition After Ordnance Explosion
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.
Artillery Shell Safely Removed From Kindergarten Grounds
One of Project RENEW’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams yesterday took action to safely remove a piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a kindergarten attended by 150 toddlers in Cam Lo Ha Village of Cam Thanh Commune. RENEW’s quick...
Mine Action ALERT: Srap Yard Explosion Injures Five
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...
Vietnam vet Chuck Searcy works to clean up U.S. bomb legacy in Vietnam
Chuck Searcy might one day return to Athens to stay. But as he nears 70, Searcy says he still has unfinished business after 19 years in Vietnam...
NPA train BOMICEN technical staff on non-technical survey and information management
Fifteen technicians from the Technology Centre for Bomb and Mine Disposal (BOMICEN) have just finished a five-day training course organized by Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) using experience and expertise from Project RENEW.
Norwegian People’s Aid commits supporting Quang Tri Province to overcome consequences of explosive remnants of war
The signing of a cooperation agreement between Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) and the government of Quang Tri Province today was a benchmark in the joint efforts to help the province address the consequences of cluster bombs and other explosive...
Teenage boys find 500 wartime munitions, alert RENEW team for safe removal and destruction
A cache of unexploded ordnance was recovered and removed from an acacia forest in a coastal area of Quang Tri Province this week, after two schoolboys rode their bicycles two kilometers to report their discovery to a Project RENEW...
Wedding goes on as scheduled, after cluster bombs are removed from family garden
A family of seven in An Hung Village has peace of mind now, after two deadly cluster bombs and one rifle grenade were safely destroyed from their garden on Wednesday by one of Project RENEW’s mobile Explosive Ordnance Disposal...
Scrap metal collector reports cache of unexploded mortars unearthed near local residents’ home
A quick response on Monday by Project RENEW’s EOD team to a UXO discovery report the day before resulted in over 60 items of wartime ordnance being safely removed from a rice field near a family residence in Trieu...
Elderly villager’s intervention saves grandson and friends from UXO threat
An elderly villager in Trieu Trung Commune may have saved his grandson and the boy’s friends from being killed or injured by a US wartime bomb recently, when the grandfather stopped the boys from trying to drag the bomb...