Yemeni shootings in London

Title

Yemeni shootings in London

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Apr 1977

Year of production

1977

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Duration

00:02:11

Description

Paul Woodley reports on the murder of the former Yemeni Prime Minister al-Qadi Abdulla al-Hajri, his wife Fatimah, and embassy official Abdallah al-Hammami outside the Bayswater Hotel in central London (10/04/77). They were shot by an assailant as they sat in a car outside a hotel. Witnesses have described the suspect and a search is ongoing. Interviews with Commander Jim Neville of Scotland Yard who appeals for witnesses and Yemeni ambassador Mohamed Abdullah al-Eryani on motives for the killing.

Contributors

Paul Woodley; Jim Neville; Mohamed Abdullah al-Eryani

Keywords

Deaths; London; Terrorism; Homicide; Yemen; Witnesses; al-Qadi Abdulla al-Hajri; Fatimah al-Hajri; Abdallah al-Hammami

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