History Today: 2 Sikh bodyguards, over 30 bullets… The tale of Indira Gandhi’s gruesome assassination
Forty-one years ago, on this day (October 31), India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed as she stepped out of her New Delhi residence by two of her Sikh bodyguards. The assassins pumped more than 30 bullets into her before other security arrived at the scene and killed one and grievously injured the other. It’s also on this day in 1941 that 12 years of labour resulted in the completion of Mount Rushmore in the US
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