This just in from our office in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam:

(Truong Quoc Dung-aged 40) A horrible accident happened to a 40-year-old man in Gio Linh district of Quang Tri province at 16h on Dec 27th 2005. Unknown ordnance suddenly exploded when he was digging a hole for planting trees in a new resettlement vilage to the west of the same district. The victim was severely injured: one of his kidneys and liver were damaged while the lungs were also seriously affected. He was suffered from too much bleeding.He was taken immediately to Gio Linh Health center for first aid and transferred to Quang Tri General Hospital some hours later for intensive care and treatment, where he got surgeries by the doctors. Due to the severe injury, he was transferred to Hue Central Hospital one day after. Unluckily, the doctors in Hue could not save his life. He died one day after being taken to Hue.He left behide his wife and 5 young children, of which the youngest is only one year old and the eldest is 14 years old.