1965 Saigon bombing

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1965 Saigon bombing
Damage to the My Canh floating restaurant.jpg
Damage to entrance to the My Canh floating restaurant
Location Saigon River, Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates 10°49′32.36″N106°43′52.6″E / 10.8256556°N 106.731278°E / 10.8256556; 106.731278
Date25 June 1965
8:15 p.m. (UTC+7)
Attack type
 Time bomb
Deaths31 [1]
Injured80 [1]
Perpetrators Viet Cong
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On 25 June 1965, during the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong exploded two bombs in Saigon killing 31 people. [1]

Bombing

The first bomb detonated at 8:15 p.m. (local time) in a floating restaurant "My Canh Café" at Bạch Đằng Quay on the bank of the Saigon River. Moments after the first blast, another bomb exploded on the riverbank as the survivors fled the restaurant. [1] [2]

31 people were killed and 42 were wounded. [3] [4] Eight American servicemen were killed in the blast and a further 12 injured. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The My Canh Restaurant Bombing". Home of the Veterans of the Phu Lam Signal Facility. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Week of June 21—27, 2020:Bombing of the My Canh Restaurant; Saigon, June 25, 1965". United States Department of Defense. 21 June 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  3. ↑ Willbanks, James (2013). Vietnam War Almanac: An In-Depth Guide to the Most Controversial Conflict in American History. Simon and Schuster. p. 127. ISBN   9781626365285.
  4. ↑ Kocher, Matthew Adam. "Chapter III: War in the Hamlets: Human Ecology and the Vietnam War". Human Ecology and Civil War (PDF). p. 18.
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