1965 Saigon bombing

{{short description|Bombing in which 42 were killed}}{{Expand Vietnamese}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox civilian attack

| title = 1965 Saigon bombing

| image =File:Damage to the My Canh floating restaurant.jpg

| caption = Damage to entrance to the My Canh floating restaurant

| location = Saigon River, Saigon, South Vietnam

| coordinates ={{coord|display=it|10|49|32.36|N|106|43|52.6|E|scale:50000_region:VN}}

| date = 25 June 1965

| time = 8:15 p.m.

| timezone = UTC+7

| type = Time bomb

| fatalities = 31{{cite web|title=The My Canh Restaurant Bombing|url=http://phulam.com/mycanh.htm|work=Home of the Veterans of the Phu Lam Signal Facility|access-date=January 21, 2011|archive-date=November 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125043130/http://phulam.com/mycanh.htm|url-status=dead}}

| injuries = 80

| perps= Viet Cong

}}

{{History of Hồ Chí Minh City}}

On 25 June 1965, during the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong exploded two bombs in Saigon killing 31 people.

==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.{{cite web|url=https://www.vietnamwar50th.com/education/week_of_june_21A/|title=Week of June 21—27, 2020:Bombing of the My Canh Restaurant; Saigon, June 25, 1965|publisher=United States Department of Defense|date=21 June 2020|access-date=19 March 2025}}

31 people were killed and 42 were wounded.{{cite book|last=Willbanks|first=James|title=Vietnam War Almanac: An In-Depth Guide to the Most Controversial Conflict in American History|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2013|isbn=9781626365285|page=127}}{{cite book|last=Kocher|first=Matthew Adam|title=Human Ecology and Civil War |url=http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/seminars/kocher_f06.pdf|page=18|chapter=Chapter III: War in the Hamlets: Human Ecology and the Vietnam War}} Eight American servicemen were killed in the blast and a further 12 injured.