What the records say
- When
- 6 Oct 1983
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 6
- Coordinates
- 31.51° N, 75.35° E
- Description
- Massacre in Punjab, India
Placed at the town its title names, Dhilwan.
1983 Dhilwan bus massacre
Massacre in Punjab, India
The 1983 Dhilwan Bus massacre was an uninvestigated, unsolved, and unclaimed incident on 6 October 1983, in which 6 Hindus were shot dead by "'unidentified' extremists" purported by the media to have been Sikh. The victims were taken off a bus going from Dhilwan in Kapurthala district to Jalandhar, in the northern state of Punjab, India.
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