Meet the female squad clearing out bombs

Landmine ladies: Members of the all-female landmine clearance team searching for unexploded ordnances on a field in Quang Tri province. — Reuters

Two petite women in protective gear walk slowly down an empty field in Vietnam, carrying a large metal detector that clicks and whirrs, searching for unexploded ordnance.

Medic and safety officer Nguyen Thi Ha Lan supervises her teammates, the “landmine girls” as they are known, preparing to detonate a cluster bomb left behind from the war with the United States that ended in 1975. It is one of many underneath the soil in Quang Tri province, north-central Vietnam.