KILLED BY TRIBESMEN
EMIR HABIBULLAH. SEVERAL COMPANIONS SHOT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DELHI, November 4. Peshawar reports state tha' Habibullah was executed by southern province tribesmen, who dragged him and his companions from a fort, threw them into the moat, and then shot them.
Baccha Sakao, an Afghan chieftain, proclaimed himself the Emir Habibullah, and tried to make himself King of Afghanistan. Fighting between his forces and those of Nadir Khan ended in the defeat of the former.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 9
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