Series of photos showing Lord Mountbatten visiting village Kahuta, Thoa Khalsa and other villages in Rawalpindi District where Sikhs and Hindus were massacred by Muslims. The caption in the AP photo says that about 22 Hindus and Sikhs were killed as a result of the violence. Date of this visit was May 8, 1947. From early March onwards, riots had already begun in the border districts of Punjab.

Around 7000 to 8000 Sikhs and Hindus were killed in March, 1947 around Rawalpindi villages.

An inhabitant of the village of Kahuta speaking with Lord MOUNTBATTEN, the Viceroy of India, about the damage caused by the frequent riots in the border districts on May 8, 1947.

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