HANOI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- A big ammunition exploded in Vietnam's central highlands Kon Tum province, killing a husband and his wife and injuring their two children, the provincial authorities said on Tuesday.
An unexploded M79 grenade exploded on Monday in the province's Kon Tum city, killing a 46-year-old man and his 40-year-old wife, and injuring their 17-year-old daughter and their nine-year-old son.
The explosion happened when the man was trying to get metal from the grenade.
During the 1965-1975 Vietnam War, the U.S. Armed Forces deployed more than 15 million tons of bombs, mines, artillery shells and other ordnance in Vietnam, in which 10 percent did not detonate as designed, according to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund of the United States.
Vietnamese scrap collectors often saw unexploded ordnance for metal and explosive, while small children play ammunitions by breaking them, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries annually.
