Yesterday I posted some photographs with a number of questions. For those of you who might be interested, here is an extract from the article to which the photos were attached. To read the full article, click on the link below the extract. Any suggestions for storylines?
Seventy years ago, a young British couple was shot dead at a mission hospital in Kashmir, making orphans of their three sons - one only two weeks old. To mark the anniversary two of those sons, now white-haired, made a personal pilgrimage to the spot.
"I feel very emotional to be here," says Doug Dykes, standing yards from the veranda where his mother and father suffered fatal bullet wounds when he was two years old.
"I saw my parents being killed - that's what I've been told. My father tried to stop the attackers approaching the nuns and he was shot. I ran screaming towards my father. My mother ran after me - and then she was also shot."
There's a touch of anguish in his recollections - a sense that he may in some way have been responsible for the death of his mother.
http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-41996612
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