500 Kilo Bomb Found Near Duc Pho Hamlet in Quang Ngai

Workers building a road in a mountainous area of Duc Pho district, unearthed a 500 kg bomb on March 1, only fifty meters from some houses. Huynh Kim Lap, director of the construction firm that detected the bomb, said that he asked the local authorities to transport and defuse the bomb as soon as possible. The firm has posted signs and warned local people to stay away from the dangerous area while it waits for Peoples Army of Vietnam ordinance disposal experts to defuse the bomb. This is the third bomb unearthed in the area since mid-2009. Duc Pho, the southernmost district of Quang Ngai province on the central coast, was heavily contested during the French and American wars.