Six assassins set out to kill the crown prince of the colonial power that had subjugated their land.
Their plan: Assassinate him when he is visiting the capital city of the occupied land. Helpfully, the crown prince has decided to have a procession through the city upon arriving. The assassins line the route of the procession, a road running alongside the river. The assassins are among the huge crowds that have turned up, armed with guns and bombs. Six chances to kill the prince.
As the prince moves past the first and second would-be assassins, they do not act. Maybe it was nerves? Maybe there was too much of a crowd for them to get close enough to the open top car where the crown prince is travelling.
The car approaches the third assassin. He throws a bomb, but it bounces off the car of the crown prince and lands in front of the car behind them in the procession, and explodes. Several people in the car behind the crown prince are seriously hurt. Mayhem. But the crown prince is fine and his car and the rest of the procession zoom off in a hurry.
The unsuccessful third assassin swallows a cyanide pill and jumps into the river nearby. The cyanide pill doesn’t work and a scorching summer has meant that the river is only 13 cm deep. He neither dies nor drowns. Caught by the crowds, he is beaten and handed over to the police.
Vinoy 