Qadhi Abdullah al-Hajjri (; 1911 – 10 April 1977) was the

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of the

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from 30 December 1972 until 10 February 1974. He was appointed by

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Abdul Rahman al-Iryani Abdul Rahman Yahya al-Eryani (; 10 June 1910 – 14 March 1998) was a Yemeni politician who served as the second President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) from 5 November 1967 to 13 June 1974. Originally a leader of the Free Yemeni Move ...

Death

Hajjri was assassinated in

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on April 10, 1977, along with his wife Fatimah and Abdullah Ali al Hammami, minister

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of the

embassy in

. All three were shot dead in their

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car outside the Royal Lancaster Hotel near Hyde Park using a silenced .32 automatic pistol.Borrell, Clive. "Former Yemeni prime minister and wife in London triple shooting." ''The Times'', 11 April 1977. A report in a British newspaper named Zohair Yousif Akache, a

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(PFLP)

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and later that year the leader of the

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, as being wanted by

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in connection with the political killings.

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