Children's Party attack

Childrens Party attack
Location	RAF Khormaksar, Aden
Date	December 1964
Attack type	Bombing
Deaths	1
Non-fatal injuries	4
Perpetrators	NLF

Aden Emergency

High Commissioner Attack(Dec 1963)
Radfan Campaign (Jan-May 1964)
Childrens Party Attack (Dec 1964)
Aden Legislative Council election, 1964
Battle of Dhala (March 1965)
Assassination of Harry Barrie (Aug 1965)
Assassination of Sir Arthur Charles (Sept 1965)
Aden Airport Attack (Sept 1965)
Aden Street Riots (Jan-Feb 1967)
Arab Police Mutiny (Jun 1967)
Battle of the Crater (July 1967)
Withdrawal from Aden (Nov 1967)

The Children's Party attack was a terrorist 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]

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

↑ "Urban Terrorism", Aden Emergency at Britain's Small Wars
↑ 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.

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/10/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.