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Old 30th Dec 2016, 10:54
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Another SVN veteran told me a few years ago, that an average of 7 people a day were still being killed in Vietnam by unexploded ordnance left over from the Vietnam War.
I'm not sure where he got his information from, but the article below says over 40,000 Vietnamese have been killed by unexploded ordnance in Vietnam since 1975.
If we call it 41,000 deaths, that's 1000 deaths a year in the 41 years since 1975. There's possibly quite a few unrecorded deaths as well.
1000 deaths a year is still 2.73 people being killed every day there, and it doesn't seem like the casualty rate is slowing down much.

The Vietnam War is still killing people
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