Pakistan Army Claims To Be In Full
Control But Fighting Reported in Dacca
Unofficial reports reaching Calcutta last night spoke of fierce fighting continuing in Dacca, Rangpur, Comilla and other cities of the eastern wing. But with full press censorship imposed on the whole country, information could come only from clandestine radio stations and refugees crossing from East Pakistan into West Bengal.
A monitored Pakistani radio report denied that Lieutenant-General Tikka Khan, the martial law administrator in East Pakistan, had been killed ‘in an attack on his Dacca residence yesterday. The clandestine Bangladesh radio station said that Pakistan. Air Force had bombed a hospital in Dacca, killing all the patients.
Reference: The Times, 29 March, 1971