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Migrants visit temple after 14 years

Srinagar Aug. 4. A local temple reverberated with bhajans after 14 years when more than 200 displaced Kashmiri Hindus reached their native place to offer prayers, in Baramulla district.

The natives of Sumbal-Sonawari, who migrated from the valley in 1990 in the wake of militancy, arrived at the Shri Nand Kishore Maharaj temple yesterday and performed pujas for nearly six hours, official sources said today.

Many migrants, who included women and children, could not control their sentiments and burst into tears on seeing their damaged homes and property in the area.

The majority among the devotees were visiting their ancestral homes for the first time as they were born after their parents migrated.

Local Muslims accorded a warm welcome to their Hindu neighbours at Sumbal and took them to their homes and offered food and tea, the sources said. — PTI

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