Lao PDR - Xieng Khouang Province - The Women of UCT6 unexploded ordnance clearance team

Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces-- in Lao PDR. Panee Phommavongsee, Community Liaison Superviser for UCT6 watches as the UXO are destroyed at the end of the day. The safety distance for one BLU-26 is 300m or further.

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Image Size: 4000x3000 / 856.8KB; Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Laos Lao PDR Xieng Khouang Mines Advisory Group MAG Xieng Khouang Ban Namoune Namoune humanitarian agency charity NGO non-government organisation UXO unexploded ordnance Vietnam War Vietnam war conflict Tessa Bunney countryside rural environment field remote isolated village cluster bomb cluster bombs bomb submunition bombie UCT6 clearance team work working dangerous job clearing clear development destroy contaminated contamination landscape land detonation detonating BLU-26 woman female uniform community liaison supervisor safe safety distance radio
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Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces-- in Lao PDR. Panee Phommavongsee, Community Liaison Superviser for UCT6 watches as the UXO are destroyed at the end of the day. The safety distance for one BLU-26 is 300m or further.