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DISORDERS IN INDIA CALCUTTA GUN DUEL (in a.m.) NEW DELHI Aug 10 Four passengers were killed and ZU injured when an exposion between New Delhi and Bhatinda derailed two carriages of a special train cairymg Pakistan Government personnel from New Delhi to Karachi. Three relief trains have been sent from Lahore. Two armed policemen were killed and one policeman and five other people wounded in a sharp exchange of fire between the police and an armed group of rioters who took up positions in a vacant house in a northern suburb of Calcutta The police cordoned oft the area, dislodged the rioters and found a dozen bombs , . ~ The occupant ot a private car in the Bowbaznr district whipped out a revolver and killed a policeman who challenged his vehicle.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22404, 11 August 1947, Page 5
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