On the day of Mrs. Gandhi’s funeral, sporadic violence continues, while reports begin to emerge of the full extent of the genocidal massacres, wiping out Sikh neighbourhoods in many areas.

Ken Rees, ITN, reporting from New Delhi. 3 November 1984 ©Getty images
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Two lanes of Block 32, an area of around 500 square yards inhabited by around 450 Sikh families, is littered with corpses, the drains choked with dismembered limbs and masses of hair. Cindered human remains lie scattered in the first 20 yards of the first lane. The remaining 40-yard stretch of the street is strewn with naked bodies, brutally hacked beyond recognition. Lifeless arms hang over balconies; many houses have bodies piled three-deep on their doorsteps.
 
“Take me away”,
wails a three-year old girl, crawling from under the bodies of her father and three brothers and stepping over countless others lying in her one-roomed tenement, collapsing into the arms of a reporter.

Rahul Kuldip Bedi. Politics of a Pogrom. The Assassination and After. Arun Shourie, Prannoy Roy, Shekhar Gupta. Roli Books. New Delhi. 1985.
A spot where three people were burnt alive. Location and photographer unknown.
A ransacked Sikh home emptied of its occupants. Photographer Ashok Vahie.
Reduced to ashes: in a gutted residence in the capital, the charred legs of a victim can be seen. Photographer Satish Sharma.
The remains of bricks and rocks, that were used to enter this home. Photographer Ashok Vahie.

Dead bodies were being dumped at Subzi Mandi, a vegetable
market in Old Delhi. He [Bhatia] managed to count 119 bodies before being overwhelmed by the smell of smoke and burnt flesh.

Shyam Bhatia, reporter, The Observer. Bullets and Bylines: From the Frontlines of Kabul, Delhi, Damascus and Beyond, 2016, p 41.
Human remains littered what was left of a Sikh homes. Burnt and destroyed homes in Trilokpuri, East Delhi following a genocidal massacre. Photographer Ashok Vahie.
Blood-drenched corpses litter a courtyard. Photographer unknown.
©The Times, 3 November 1984
The stench of blood and burnt flesh attract stray dogs to the now empty lanes of Trilokpuri, East Delhi. Photographer Ashok Vahie.
The killing lanes destroyed Sikh homes in Block 32 in Trilokpuri, East Delhi, in the aftermath of some of the most concentrated and vicious pogroms that occurred between November 1 and 2, 1984. Here, once the Gurdwaras were attacked and destroyed, the Sikh community was deliberately disarmed by the local police, who closed off the area before the murderous gangs entered. They went about their sickening work of butchering, burning, and raping for the next 36 hours. Photo courtesy of Hindustan Times.
The personal belongings of a family scattered in the mayhem. Photographer Ashok Vahie.
A woman with a bandage on her forehead stands in front of a brick wall, gesturing with one hand, while another woman in traditional attire watches her in the background.
An injured woman from East Delhi. Photographer unknown
4-19 November 1984

The anti-Sikh violence continues for a fourth day, while Mrs. Gandhi is cremated.