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"Bridge where the Hunters were killed - Sialkot, Panjab, India". Landscape view of a small bridge over a river. A horse and cart are coming along the road towards the crossing. Thomas Hunter (1827-1857), the first Church of Scotland missionary to the Punjab, was murdered, with his family, during the Indian Mutiny the same year as they arrived in Sialkot. He, his wife Jane and their baby child attempted to escape first to Wazirabad and then towards the fort in Sialkot. When passing the jail they were shot at and then attacked by a jailor’s assistant with a sword. The bodies were thrown from the carriage onto the embankment. They are buried in a garden next to the fort in Sialkot and the Hunter Memorial Church was opened in their name in 1865.
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