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Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
In 1991 the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed. The grandson of the founder of modern India, Jawaharlal Nehru, was blown up while campaigning for the general election.
In 1991 the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. The grandson of the founder of modern India, Jawaharlal Nehru, was blown up by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels while campaigning for the general election. We hear from a journalist who was with him just moments before the attack.
(Photo: Funeral procession of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 24 May 1991. Credit: Douglas E. Curran/AFP/Getty Images)
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