Villagers found about 80 unexploded artilleries near Nga/San Baw village in Rathedaung Township in Rakhine State.
Forty unexploded ordnance shells have been found in a hole at a field about 1 mile north of Nga/San Baw Village, and the rest of the artillery shells are taking place everywhere according to the Village Administrator U Aung Tun Win.
“The villagers found it while tending grazing cattle. It has been about a month since we saw them. They are buried in the field and two or three in the field over there and another two are in another field. They did not bring it home. These are unexploded ordnance, so there is a risk of something happening. These bombs are about two feet long and some sizes are about vacuum flask”.
U Kyaw Zan Hla from Nga/San Baw village, who found the remnants of fighting told Narinjara that the weapons were near their fields.
"Forty remnants were buried in an old hole. There are forty remnants which are found in the field over there and here. The remnants are short or long and there are RPG bullets also. Soldiers used to cross this road. They told us not to touch them for the fear of exploding.”
The remnants have found about a mile north of Nga/San Baw village and it has been over a year that a military outpost stations about a mile and a half north of the village, according to Administrator U Aung Tun Win.
U Hla Than Maung from Nga/San Baw village, where the weapons were found, said, “We are collecting the remnants near there because it would explode if they were trampled by children and other villagers. Children and villagers are not allowed to go there. We collected them from that field and these fields”.
For fear of an explosion, they wanted the authorities to clear the area according to the locals.
