What the records say
- When
- 23 Apr 1930
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 420
- Coordinates
- 34.01° N, 71.57° E
- Description
- one of the defining moments of the independence movement in British India
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Qissa Khwani massacre
Event during the independence movement in British India
The Qissa Khwani massacre in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India on 23 April 1930 was an armoured vehicle-ramming attack and mass shooting of the unarmed civilian freedom fighters by the British colonial troops, which consequently became one of the defining moments of the independence movement in British India.
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