Children's Party attack

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

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]

  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.