Children's Party attack

Summary

The Children's Party attack was an attack which took place during the Aden Emergency. Terrorists threw a grenade into a children's party being held at the RAF Khormaksar. One girl was killed (Gillian Sidey, daughter of Air Commodore E. Sidey) and four children wounded.[1]

Children's Party attack
LocationRAF Khormaksar, Aden
DateDecember 1964
Attack type
Bombing
Deaths1
Injured4
PerpetratorsNLF

It was part of a general outbreak of violence around Christmas in Aden 1964: on 26 December Inspector Fadhl Khalil of Aden Special Branch was shot dead when terrorists fired at him and four other policemen in the bazaar at Crater Town. On Christmas Eve, a British sentry shot dead an Arab.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ "Urban Terrorism", Aden Emergency Archived 2013-11-05 at the Wayback Machine at Britain's Small Wars
  2. ^ Reuter, A. P., and B. U. P. "Aden alert as terrorists kill police chief." Sunday Times [London, England] 27 Dec. 1964: 2. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.