COUP IN YEMEN
KING AND SONS KILLED EL WA2IR NEW RULER (1 p.m.) CAIRO, Feb. 23. The correspondent of the Cairo newspaper A 1 Ahram. accompanying the Arab League's fact-finding commission to Yemen, says that shots were fired from a car -which drew level while the Royal car was touring the suburbs of San and killed King Yehia. his grandson, the Prime Minister and two other occupants. The King's three sons, on hearing the news, rushed to the Palace and tried to seize power. The followers of Abdulla Ibn Ahmed El Wazir. who already had been proclaimed King, opposed them. Disorder followed in which the two Princes were killed and the third wounded. The political and religious leaders then agreed to recognise El Wazir. The correspondent says it is clear the coup was planned some time before. Seif el flak Ibrahim, another of King Yehia’s sons, was the chief plotter.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22569, 24 February 1948, Page 5
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