Clearing the land: Groups strive to rid Vietnam of wartime devices of devastation
They're called "bombies" or "bomblets." They look like a child's toy -- round, the size of a baseball, good for tossing back and forth. They hide among the tall grass and shrubs, nestled there like Easter eggs waiting to be found.
But when they are found -- and they are often discovered by children -- these devices become flesh rippers and limb destroyers.
Vietnamese children stand in front of a pile of spent SUU-30 containers, each capable of carrying up to 300 BLU-26 "bomblets." The deadly leftover explosives from the Vietnam War continue to kill and maim people, many of them children.
These "bombies" are explosives -- the mutilating remnants of a war that will have been over 26 years at the end of this month, yet is still killing.
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