Mass Killings in Delhi, Punjab
(Rec. 12.30.) NEW DELHI, Sept. 5.
Fifty-five persons were killed and 61 injured in communal rioting at New Delhi today, making a total of 70 killed in 24 hours.
The victims included 12 killed and 20 injured when police fired several times on a mob looting shops in the suburb of Karolbagh.
A message from Amritsar says 200 people are reported to have been killed at Beas railway station in Punjab last night when Moslem troops going to Pakistan in a special train attacked Hindu and Sikh refugees going to Hoshiarpur in another special train.
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Northern Advocate, 6 September 1947, Page 7
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