The bomb was defused by military engineers of the Military Commands of Quang Binh and Quang Tri provinces, in collaboration with experts of Golden West and Peace Trees Vietnam.

Earlier, local people in Hop Trung village of Quang Trach district, Quang Binh province found the American multi-purpose bomb weighing 337kg and coded M117 while they were digging soil in the Melaleuca forest.

Hearing about the news, relevant agencies were dispatched to the scene and found that they could neither move nor detonate the bomb on the spot as the bomb contained anti-disassembly and anti-movement systems and it was located close to residential areas and the 500KV power transmission line.

For safety reasons, they used a mobile bomb cutter system to cut off the two ends of the bombs containing the detonator, and burned them together with explosives in the bomb body to keep the steel bomb shell intact.

The bomb was successfully deactivated in the end.