Engineers on May 5 deactivated a 100kg chemical bomb that was fished out from Dong Tien canal’s 5 meter-deep bed in Long An. Soldiers also discovered two more bombs in this canal. Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Tran Van Dong, deputy director of the Ministry of Defense’s Lung Lo Construction Company, which discovered the bombs, revealed that the chemical bomb is called BZ and it can affect the nervous system. This bomb was treated differently than others. Engineers smeared mud around it, put it in a plastic bag, then a sackcloth and finally a cask. The bomb will be moved to Dong Nai to be placed into a concrete hole containing chemicals to neutralize the toxic chemicals inside the bomb. The two other bombs are around 200kg each, manufactured in 1971. The two bombs were defused. On April 7 and 14, this company found and defused two bombs of 500kg each in Long An and Dong Thap provinces.
