What the records say
- When
- 11 Sep 1924
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 33.58° N, 71.45° E
- Description
- Sectarian violence in British India
Placed at the town its title names, Kohat.
1924 Kohat riots
Sectarian violence in British India
The 1924 Kohat riots happened in the Kohat town of the North-West Frontier Province, British India in 1924. In three days of rioting, official statistics peg the number of casualties among Hindus and Sikhs at more than thrice that of Muslims; almost the entire Hindu population had to be evacuated to Rawalpindi.
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