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Well over 1,000 Sikhs from all over the Kashmir Valley had converged on the village of Chathisinghpora to watch the cremations and to mourn with the survivors of the massacre.
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Mourners
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The bodies had been piled up in the courtyard with firewood stacked all around them.
Funeral pyres
As people brought more firewood and the flames - the funeral pyres - were lit, all sorts of mourning was taking place.
 Thousands of Sikhs have converged from all over Kashmir
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At one point, a local television crew was attacked by a mob and their cameras smashed, but things got under control a little bit later and the crowd turned quite welcoming to visiting journalists.
Blood stains
Just outside the temple was where many of the victims had been shot down and that added to the anger and the emotion.
You could still see blood stains on the ground despite pouring rain, and the shoes of the victims standing there against the temple walls.
It's still unclear who might have carried this out, although a senior police officer told me it was probably Muslim militants sent over from Pakistan.
Local people weren't so sure.
They are very angry with the government for what they saw as a lack of security, they said that the government themselves might be responsible.
That's very hard to say at this point.
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