Massacre alleged
tJi.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) QUANG NGAI, Sept. 27. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops herded more than 40 civilians into a Building, and blew it up with explosives, refugees from a Communist-occupied district reported. They said that the atrocity occurred last week in a hamlet in the Mo Due district, about 200 miles north of Saigon. Forces from the North occupied the hamlet during their advance on the town of Mo Due, and more than 100 civilians were herded into a building for screening and interrogation, the refugees reported. Those who expressed themselves against the Saigon Government were allowed to leave the building, but between 40 and 48 persons were still inside at the end of the screening session. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops then planted exelosives in the building, and lew it up, killing all inside, according to survivors who later made their way to Gov-ernment-controlled territory.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33033, 28 September 1972, Page 24
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