Grenade Meant For British Diplomat

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 21

Grenade Meant For British Diplomat

(N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—i Copyrig ht) ADEN, December 11. The South Arabian Federation was under a state of emergency today and frontiers with the A emen were closed while police investigated yesterday’s bombing which killed one person and wounded 39.

A hand grenade was flung into a crowd of British and Aden dignitaries at Aden airport as they prepared to board a 8.0.A.C. airliner for London. An Indian woman was killed. Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, the

British High Commissioner, was injured slightly. A hospital said Mr George Henderson, the British Assistant High Commissioner, and Mr Donald Foster, permanent secretary at the Ministry of National Guidance and Information, were seriously wounded. Others seriously injured included two Arabs and the son of the dead Indian woman.

A Reuter correspondent. Ibrahim Noori received leg wounds from the blast.

Noori reported: “Many people here consider the grenade was meant to assassinate the High Commissioner, considered by Yemenis and their sympathisers here as the toughest Britain has ever put in charge of a colonial territory.” Sir Kennedy Trevaskis and Aden Ministers were to have flown to London for talks on self-rule for the colony, the future of the British base at Aden, and financial aid.