ADEN: ARAB NATIONALISTS IN MORTAR ATTACK ON BRITISH ARMY BARRACKS.

Record ID: 355243

  • Title: ADEN: ARAB NATIONALISTS IN MORTAR ATTACK ON BRITISH ARMY BARRACKS.
  • Date: 30th September 1967
  • Summary: CRESCENT HOTEL; EXPERTS EXAMINING MORTAR BOMB; BOMB EXPLODED; AIRPORT. Initials JP/V/MGT/MJB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th October 1967 13:00
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  • Location: ADEN
  • Country: Yemen
  • Reuters ID: LVADP1XJZG8IW2QL02BBHFBY1IBC
  • Story Text: SOUTH ARABIA'S NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT ORGANISATION STAGED A MORTAR ATTACK ON A BRITISH ARMY BARRACKS AT STEAMER POINT LAST THURSDAY (SEPTEMBER 28TH). IT WAS THE FIRST SERIOUS ANTI-BRITISH ATTACK IN ADEN AFTER A MONTH OF RELATIVE CALM.

    FIVE ARABS WERE INJURED WHEN THREE MORTAR BOMBS AIMED AT THE BARRACKS EXPLODED OUTSIDE THE NEARBY CRESCENT HOTEL. ONE SHELL PUNCHED FIVE HOLES IN A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT'S CAR PARKED OPPOSITE THE HOTEL. DEMOLITION EXPERTS TOOK CARE OF ONE UNEXPLODED BOMB WHILE TROOPS SEALED OFF STEAMER POINT'S BACK STREETS TO CARRY OUT A SEARCH OF VEHICLES.

    AN NLF STATEMENT, MADE AFTER THE ATTACK, SAID THAT THE CEASEFIRE IN FORCE BETWEEN IT AND THE RIVAL NATIONALIST GROUP, FLOSY, DID NOT EXTEND TO BRITISH TROOPS OR INSTALLATIONS.
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