Dioxin cleanup underway at US-built airport in central Vietnam

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Soldiers and officers from the Ministry of National Defense's Chemical Command remove dioxin from A So airport in the central Thua Thien-Hue Province, August 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Van An

 

The defense ministry's Chemical Command is cleaning up A So airport in Thua Thien Hue Province of dioxin contamination left from the Vietnam War.

 

Situated in A Luoi District, 100 km from the town of Hue, the country’s imperial capital, the airport was built by the U.S. in the 1960s.

 

Between August 1965 and December 1970 A Luoi District was among the places where the U.S. sprayed Agent Orange most intensively.

 

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