MANY DIE IN PUNJAB RIOTS
1(11.45 a.m.) NEW DELHI. March 7. | Twenty-seven were killed and-175 I injured in rioting which broke out yesterday in Rawalpindi. Cases of I arson and looting are also reported. Punjab authorities have extended precautions and imposed a curfew on the towns of Peroepore and Gujranwala.
Two were killed and two wounded in stabbing incidents in Lahore today. An official., estimate of casualties is not yet available, but is probably between 500 and 800 killed throughout the Punjab. The district magistrate of Delhi province banned for one month the carrying of firearms, lathis and weapons of any kind within the urban area of Delhi. Seven streets in Multan have been reduced to ashes, with casualties “in the hundreds,” according to latest reports. A fanatical mob attacked the Pesha-war-Bombay express while it was standing at Taxila, station, north of Rawalpindi, says the Lahore correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Many passengers were injured and at least three were killed. The Gov-, eminent sent, a relief train.
The Punjab Government’s first official statement on casualties in the province since the outbreak of communal! rioting three days ago, says 165 were killed and 463 injured.
Casualties at Lahore were 27 dead 'and 90 injured.
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Northern Advocate, 8 March 1947, Page 7
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