The shelling was an attack on a Cai LáºÂy District government-controlled schoolyard in Cai LáºÂy town, ÃÂá»Ânh Tðá»Âng province, South Vietnam on 9 March 1974. The shelling was centered on the districts of Cái Bè and Cai LáºÂy, areas of traditional VC control in ÃÂá»Ânh Tðá»Âng Province in the northern delta.
According to the Saigon military command, 23 students were killed and 32 others injured. The US Government called the bombardment part of "the terrorist campaign of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. The Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and South Vietnam each blamed the other for the attack.