Children's Party attack facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Children's Party attack |
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| Location | RAF Khormaksar, Aden |
| Date | December 1964 |
| Attack type | Bombing |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Injured | 4 |
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.
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.
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