What the records say
- When
- 30 Oct 1990 – 2 Nov 1990
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 15
- Coordinates
- 26.80° N, 82.20° E
- Description
- police firing in Ayodhya
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Ayodhya firing incident
On 30 October and 2 November 1990, security forces in Uttar Pradesh opened fire on kar sevaks who had converged on the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, during an agitation led by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and its Sangh Parivar affiliates to demolish the mosque and erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site. The official death toll across both days was 15, though the VHP claimed to have identified 59 victims.
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