Monday, September 9, 2013

Army colonel who commanded Bloody Sunday troops is second ex-Para to be killed in Kenya within a fortnight after being shot dead by robbers while visiting his son

An armed soldier grabs a protestor on Bloody Sunday when British Paratroopers shot dead 13 civilians on a civil rights march in Derry City on January 30 1972

A decorated former Parachute Regiment colonel has been murdered by a gang of armed robbers in front of his family in Kenya.

Colonel Edward Loden, 73, who commanded the unit that fired all the fatal shots during the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972, was attacked while on holiday visiting his son in Nairobi.

He is the second senior Parachute Regiment officer to be killed in a fortnight in the country, following the murder of Lt Col David Parkinson, who was hacked to death by machete-wielding robbers on the nature reserve he managed.

More @ Daily Mail

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