21/02/2020 Laos, Khammuan
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law enforcement agency for assistance”.
The boy pointed with absolute certainty. Fifty feet from where he and his classmates were being taught about the dangers of unexploded ordnance lay a high-explosive fragmentation bomb dropped by the Americans during the Vietnam War. After all these years the BLU-26 cluster bomb was hard to spot but ten-year-old Vieng had recognized it in an illustration shown to the schoolchildren during the lesson.
Foto-Fonte: itv.com
Durante una lezione rivolta la pericolo mine e ordigni bellici inesplosi, un ragazzino (10 anni), alza una mano. Il tutor (Mines Advisory Group, or MAG), cede la parola al piccolo il quale alzando il braccio destro e per mezzo dell’indice indica un punto non distante dal luogo della discussione, quindi spiega: “quella bomba l’ho vista dietro quei cespugli”. I tecnici increduli della precisione del bambino raggiungono il cespuglio (15 metri di distanza del gruppo) e trovano una bomba BLU-26 (Cluster Bomb).
If you find anything that appears to be an explosive , device, do not touch it, leave it where it is and call the police. We will contact the appropriate agencies to properly dispose of the item.
Biography of a Bomb
