Original sentence: About 10,000 Maratha civilians and soldiers were slain on 15 January 1761.Many others did their best to hide in the streets of Panipat where the locals of the town refused to give them refuge
Edited sentence: About 10,000 Maratha civilians and soldiers were slain in cold-blood on 15 January 1761.Many others did their best to hide in the streets of Panipat when even the North Indian Muslims of the town refused to give them refuge.The Maratha battle deaths amounted to 35,000 while the Afghans and their Indian Muslim allies suffered around 40,000 losses