James and Doug Dykes return to Kashmir, where their parents were shot in front of them

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…

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