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| Picture No | 10238530 |
| Date | 1947 |
| Description | Muslim Refugees heading to Pakistan |
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Two trains packed with Muslim refugees en route from Delhi to Pakistan. A 'bulging, writhing target' trainload of refugees was attacked by Sikhs at Amritsar on 22nd September and a revenge attack by Muslims on 24th September at Komake claimed the lives of many hundred Sikhs and Hindus.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News 4 October 1947 page 365 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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