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| fatalities = 32
| injuries = 55
| perps = [[RepublicViet of Vietnam Military ForcesCong]]
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{{Campaignbox Vietnam War massacres}}
The shelling was an attack on a [[Cai Lậy District]] government-controlled schoolyard in [[Cai Lậy (town)|Cai Lậy town]], [[Định Tường province]], [[South Vietnam]] on 30 August 1973,<ref name="NYT">{{Cite news |date=30 August 1973 |title=New Vietcong Drive To Cut Saigon Link With Delta Reported |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/31/archives/new-vietcong-drive-to-cut-saigon-link-with-delta-reported.html |access-date=23 June 2020}}</ref> by the [[RepublicViet of Vietnam Military ForcesCong]] 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.
ItThe wasUS anGovernment [[Artillery]] [[Bombardment]] on an [[Elementary school]] in [[Cai Lậy (town)|Cai Lậy town]], [[Định Tường province]], Vietnam in 1974 thatcalled the USbombardment Governmentpart calledof "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]]U.S., 32 students were killed and 55 others injured.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1974-08-04 |title=Tập san Bộ Ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ |url=https://www.archive.org/details/departmentofstatb7074unit}}</ref> The [[Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam]] and South Vietnam each blamed the other for the attack.<ref>https://aad.archives.gov/aad/createpdf?rid=95660&dt=2474&dl=1345</ref>
After that, the [[Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam]] and the [[South Vietnam]] blamed each other.<ref>https://aad.archives.gov/aad/createpdf?rid=95660&dt=2474&dl=1345</ref>
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