Carpenters Busy Making Coffins For Pak Officers
NEW DELHI, NOV. 1-Pakistani Army losses in Bangladesh have risen to 189 per day and carpenters are being employed full time in the cantonment to make officers conffins which presumable get shipped to West Pakistan for burial, according to the correspondent of Sunday Times, London, in Bangladesh, says PTI.
Reports reaching Dacca suggest that 100,000 Mukti Bahini guerrillas are operating in Bangladesh, he says
The newspaper’s correspondent in Bangladesh has reported a series of attacks recently by more than 800 guerrillas on public buildings including those situated in the heart of the business centre.
The attacks to the guerrillas, says the correspondent, have compelled the Army to construct pill boxes along the route to the airport. Even Pakistan international Airways have felt the effects to the Mukti Bahini’s activities. Their Boeings, which used to land in Dacca flying over the inter-continental route, with all lights blazing, have changed their flight pattern. The aircraft now fly over water as much as possible and without navigational lights.
Work in Government offices, says the despatch, is slowing down again and streets are deserted at night except for the cars of foreign residents and Armymen.
AP adds: Four persons were shot dead by Mukti Bahini guerrillas in different parts of Dacca yesterday.
Two explosions were also reported in the city. A girl student was knocked unconscious when a bomb exploded inside a woman’s college and another explosion damaged an electric transformer.
Reference: Hindustan Standard 2.11.1971