Shelling of Cai Lay schoolyard

The shelling was an attack on a Cai Lậy District government-controlled schoolyard in South Vietnam on 30 August 1973,[1] by the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces. The shelling was centered on the districts of Cái Bè and Cai Lậy, areas of traditional VC control in Định Tường Province in the northern delta.

Shelling of Cai Lay schoolyard
Part of Vietnam War
Location	Cai Lậy District, Định Tường province, North Vietnam
Date	30 August 1973
Attack type	Bombing
Weapon	Artillery Bombardment
Deaths	32
Injured	55
Perpetrators	South Vietnam

It was an Artillery Bombardment on an Elementary school in Cai Lậy town, Định Tường province, Vietnam in 1974 that the US Government called "the terrorist campaign of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" shelling an elementary school in Cai Lay on 9 March. According to the United States, 32 students were killed and 55 others injured.[2]

After that, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and the South Vietnam blamed each other.[3]