<p>The men, aged 54 and 52, were killed immediately on Saturday as they tried to disassemble a US-made 105-millimetre shell that they found in a local field, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported.<br /><br />The injured 46-year-old man needed part of his leg amputated following the explosion in central Quang Ngai province, and he remains in a critical condition, the paper said.<br /><br />A study in 2009 showed that leftover ordnance had killed 10,529 people and wounded more than 12,000 in six heavily-contaminated provinces of central Vietnam since the conflict betweeen US and Vietnamese forces ended in 1975.<br /><br />The government last year approved a plan to clear about 1.3 million hectares, or 20 per cent of the nation's land contaminated by unexploded munitions.<br /><br />Vietnamese officials estimated they need more than 34 trillion dong (1.62 billion dollars) for the cleanup.</p>
<p>The men, aged 54 and 52, were killed immediately on Saturday as they tried to disassemble a US-made 105-millimetre shell that they found in a local field, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported.<br /><br />The injured 46-year-old man needed part of his leg amputated following the explosion in central Quang Ngai province, and he remains in a critical condition, the paper said.<br /><br />A study in 2009 showed that leftover ordnance had killed 10,529 people and wounded more than 12,000 in six heavily-contaminated provinces of central Vietnam since the conflict betweeen US and Vietnamese forces ended in 1975.<br /><br />The government last year approved a plan to clear about 1.3 million hectares, or 20 per cent of the nation's land contaminated by unexploded munitions.<br /><br />Vietnamese officials estimated they need more than 34 trillion dong (1.62 billion dollars) for the cleanup.</p>