Heat Sets Off UXO in Nam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

HEAT SETS OFF UXO

I picked up the following AP news brief in the July 25, 1998 San Jose
Mercury News. - LS

Hot weather sets off 4 old bombs in Vietnam

HANOI (AP) -- A weeklong heat wave in central Vietnam caused four
war-era bombs to explode, including a napalm device that destroyed 75
acres of forest, police said Friday. No casualties were reported.

The temperature was 104 degrees when the napalm bomb went off Monday,
police in Quang Tri province said. Firefighters spent more than four
hours putting out the blaze that followed.

Three other bombs detonated from the heat Tuesday in fields in the
provincial town of Dong Ha, police said.

Millions of war-era bombs remain scattered about the Vietnamese
countryside.

Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
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