Children's Party attack

1964 1965 1967 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.