Across Asia: Vietnam

4 injured by wartime shell

Officials say a Vietnam War-era artillery shell has exploded at a coffee plantation. Four men were injured, three seriously.

Vo Cong Khanh, chief of Huong Tan village in central Quang Tri province, says the explosion occurred on Sunday when a man working with a hoe hit the shell while weeding the plantation. The area is near the former Ta Con airstrip, part of a US Marine outpost during the war.