Mukti Fouj intensifies guerilla attacks
MUJIBNAGAR, JUNE 9 – Freedom fighters have intensified their guerilla attacks on the West Pakistani army detachments and patrols and on bridges in Bangladesh, says UNI.
In the Jessore sector, an Army Lieutenant was mobbed and killed a few days ago near Faridpur. The freedom fighters ambushed an army contingent near Chuadanga on June 6. One junior commissioned officer was killed and eight soldiers were injured in this engagement.
Guerillas also fired upon some Pakistani troops near Jessore on June 7. Freedom fighters destroyed two bridges between Panchagarh and Ruhea and inflicted heavy casualties on the Army in the Rangpur sector. The army also suffered casualties in an attack by the freedom fighters with mortars and small arms about 15 miles north of Patnitala.
The guerillas have also been active in the areas north-west of river Dhara. They shot dead two Pakistani agents in the Titalya area.
Heavy rains have rendered the unmetalled roads and tracts unfit for vehicular traffic in several areas of East Bengal. There was an exchange of fire between Pubjabi and Pathan soldiers in the Comilla area.
PTI says : several West Pakistani soldiers were killed in a bitter clash between the Multi Fouj and the Army personnel in Bhurungamari in Rangpur area yesterday.
According to roots reaching the Mukti Fouj command the actual number of soldiers killed could not be immediately ascertained.
Four soldiers were killed when the Mukti Fauj launched an offensive on Army positions at Bhurungamari the previous day. The Lalmonirhat-Bhurungamari Road was damaged following a mine explosion there.
In Khulna, the liberation force destroyed nine enemy bankers at Kaliganj and killed eight soldiers entrenched there, the reports said.
In the Mymensingh the Mukti Fouj raided Singapore village on receipt of information about the presence of Pakistani Army supporters and killed six of them in a sudden swoop yesterday. A Pakistani post at Farengapara was attacked by the liberation force and in the resultant clash the army suffered heavy casualties.
The Mukti Fouj raided a Pakistani position at Jayantipur. A Pakistani Army officer was blown to pieces in a mine explosion there. Five Pak Army personnel were killed at Chotolekhan, Mymensingh sector, when the Mukti Fauj commandos attacked them.
Our Dinhata correspondent says that Pakistani soldiers opened heavy mortar shelling on Sahebganj, Badal Ghir, Tialdanga and Kalmati. Indian border village under Dinhata PS of Cooch Behar District from Bhurungamari yesterday at 6 p.m. A good number of houses and standing jute and paddy fields belonging to Indian citizens of those villages were damaged. One Ramaluddin was killed and some others were injured. Two injured persons admitted to the Dinhata Hospital in serious condition, were transferred to the Cooch Behar Sadar Hospital today.
Our Staff Correspondent from Siliguri says; The West Pakistani Army recently murdered 13 Behari Muslims at Thakurgaon town in Bangladesh. This was stated by one Nepali businessman who fled from Thakurgaon and arrived here early this week.
According to this Nepali businessman, the Pak Army personnel brought a Bihari college girl in an abandoned house in the Thakurgaon Sugar Mill colony after kidnapping and committed rape on her. The father of the victim girl was an accountant of the Thakurgaon Sugar Mill run by the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation.
The Nepali business man further says that the Behari Muslim surrounded the colony and attampted to break open the door of the house but the Pak Army personnel then opened fire resulting in 13 deaths and injuries to several others.
Following the incident, the businessman says, great discontentment against the West Pakistani Army personnel prevails amongst the Behari Muslim community and leaders of the Jammat-e-Islam and the Muslim League who are now actively helping the Pak Army have removed their families, mostly the young girls, to safer pockets in Bangladesh.
Agencies add : The Martial Law authorities have not been able so far to restore normal river transport services in Bangladesh, said the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, quoting Dacca Radio this morning.
The Betar Kendra said that the Martial Law authorities repeated yesterday a warning they had been issuing to owners of boats and other rivercrafts since March 26 that if they failed to immediately report to the Inland Water Transport Authority, their route permits and licenses would be canceled.
Reference: Hindustan Standard, 10.06.1971