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Wartime shell blast kills two in Vietnam

Hanoi - Two Vietnamese men were killed and another seriously injured when an artillery shell believed to be left over from the Vietnam War exploded in the country's Central Highlands, local media said Friday. The three scrap metal dealers were sawing a 105-millimetre shell to remove its explosives and steel Thursday at a house in Kien Thanh Village in Dak Nong province, 250 kilometers north of Ho Chi Minh City, when the shell exploded, the newspaper Phap Luat Ho Chi Minh City reported.

Harvesting leftover wartime materiel, including unexploded ordnance, to sell as scrap metal remains a common cottage industry in poor areas of Vietnam.