Children's Party attack
Children's Party attack | |
---|---|
Location | RAF Khormaksar, Aden |
Date | December 1964 |
Attack type | Bombing |
Deaths | 1 |
Injured | 4 |
Perpetrators | NLF |
- v
- t
- e
Aden Emergency
1963
- 1st Aden
1964
- Radfan
- Nut cracker
- Cap Badge
- 2nd Aden
- 1964 Election
1965
1967
- Aden Riots
- Aden mutiny
- Crater
- Withdrawal
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]
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]