Vietnamese children. A third Vietnamese child was seriously injured. 1963 January 25: the VC dynamited a passenger freight train near Qui Nhơn, killing eight passengers and injuring 15 others. March 4: Two Protestant missionaries Elwood Forreston, an American and Gaspart Makil, a Filipino, were shot dead at a VC road block between Saigon and Da Lat. Makil's twin babies were shot and wounded. March 16: the VC threw a grenade into a Saigon home where an American family was having dinner, killing a French businessman and wounding four other persons. April 3: the VC threw two grenades into a variety show performance at a private school near Long Xuyen, An Giang Province, killing a teacher and two other adults. April 4: the VC threw grenades into an audience attending an outdoor motion picture showing in Cao Lanh village in the Mekong Delta, killing four persons and wounding 11. May 23: the VC mined the main northern rail line, killing five civilian passengers. Twelve other passengers and crew were injured. May 31: Two explosions set off by VC on bicycles killed two Vietnamese and wounded ten others in Saigon. September 12: Vo Thi Lo, 26, a schoolteacher in An Phuoc, Kien Hoa Province, was found near the village with her throat cut. She had been kidnapped three days earlier. October 16: the VC exploded mines under two civilian buses in Kien Hoa and Quảng Tín Provinces, killing 18 civilians and wounding 23. November 9: Three grenades were thrown in Saigon, injuring a total of 16 persons, including four children. 1964 February 9: Two Americans were killed and 41 wounded, including four women and five children, when a VC bomb was set off in a sports stadium during a softball game. A second bomb failed to explode. February 16: Three Americans were killed and 32 injured, most of them U.S. dependents, when the VC bombed the Kinh Do movie theater in Saigon. July 14: Pham Thao, chairman of the Catholic Action Committee in Quảng Ngãi, was executed when he returned to his native village of Pho Loi, Quảng Ngãi Province. 1965 February 6: Radio Liberation announced that the VC had shot two American prisoners of war as reprisals against the Vietnamese government, which had sentenced two VC to death. March 30: A VC car bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Saigon, killing two Americans, 19 Vietnamese and one Filipino and injuring