According to the Nghe An Provincial Military Command, the bomb was found on January 29 when construction workers were working on the foundation of a house of a local man, Nhang Van Son. Son then reported the finding to local authorities.
"We immediately sent a team to the site and found a M117 bomb which was 126cm long, 40cm in diameter and 350kg in weight," the Nghe An Provincial Military Command said. "It was left from the American War and still had its detonator intact."
The command then co-operated with local authorities to safely defused the bomb and removed it from the site.
About 800,000 tonnes of bombs, mines, and unexploded ordnance (UXO) were left and buried in Vietnam after the war against the US and southern Vietnamese from 1954 to 1975.
All 63 provinces and cities in the country have been contaminated with UXOs, but the clearance has only been carried out in some northern provinces such as Ha Giang and Lang Son and six central provinces including Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Quang Ngai
