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Building over the well has dampened the effect of it

So here is the last bit of the grisly picture at Jallianwalla- the Martyrs' Well, now enclosed in the shrine like structure you see ahead. Many people died in stampedes at the narrow gates or by jumping into the solitary well on the compound to escape the shooting. A plaque, placed at the site after independence states that 120 bodies were removed from the well. The wounded could not be moved from where they had fallen, as a curfew was declared, and many more died during the night. For detailed notes about the Jallaianwala Bagh massacre see earlier pictures in this album. (see preceding images) (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)

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Uploaded on December 9, 2017
Taken in November 2017