Mukti Fouj on the offensive in Northern sector
From Our Staff Correspondent, SILIGURI, JULY 28 – The hit and run tactics adopted by the Mukti Fauj commandos have been intensified in the northern sector of Bangladesh, particularly in the Rangpur cantonment area.
The commando groups raided their places in the cantonment area on July 23 and killed nearly a dozen Pak soldiers and destroyed a Pak Army vehicle.
On the same day commandos also attacked Alamnagar colony at the outskirts of Rangpur town with powerful hand grenades and killed more than a dozen Pak Army supporters.
The following day in the Nilphamari sector commandos stormed a meeting held by the Pak Army supporters at a place near Kishoreganj police station. At this place commandos killed several of them and injured many others.
On July 21 the Mukti Fouz guerillas ambushed two Army patrols in the Thakurganj area killing 13 Pak troops.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 29.07.1971