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Aden Airport attack
Part of Aden Emergency
Date 17 September 1965 Location Aden
Belligerents
United Kingdom	National Liberation Front Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom Unknown	Unknown
Strength
unknown	unknown
Casualties and losses
9 wounded	unknown

The Aden Airport attack was a grenade attack which took place on 17 September 1965 and resulted in the injury of nine people. The United Kingdom accused the attackers of being "externally controlled", referring to Gamal Abdel Nasser's Republic of Egypt. The attack prompted the UK to suspend the constitution of the Aden Protectorate on 25 September, in an attempt to put an end to the violence. High Commissioner of Aden Richard Turnbull thus governed the protectorate alone under the suspension order signed by Queen Elizabeth II.

References

1. "Britain Moves to Halt Aden Violence Outbreak". Rome News-Tribune. 26 September 1965.

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