পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭০১

669 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ২৫১ এক লক্ষ লোক নিহত? অমৃত বাজার পত্রিকা ২৮ মার্চ, ১৯৭১ AM RITA BAZAR PATRIKA, CALCUTTA, MARCH 28, 1971 GENERAL TIKKA KHAN SHOT DEAD * DACCA, KHULNA BOMBED A LAKH FEARED KILLED FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN MASS ACTION Agartala. March 27 -After two days of mounting deaths and destruction, the situation in the East Pakistan civil war was crystallizing tonight with the Sheikh's Bangladesh forces in a commanding position everywhere except in the three major Cantonments of Dacca, Comilla and Jessore as' many as 100,000 people are feared killed. Major Zia Khan, Chief of the Bangladesh Liberation Army declared over the free Bangladesh Radio tonight that Bangladesh would be rid of the Pakistani military administration in two or three days. The Radio Pakistan announcement of Mr. Rahman's arrest (which was later denied by Free Bangla radio) infuriated Dacca residents who stormed the official residence of Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan. Martial Law administrator and shot him dead. Reliable information reaching here said that flames and smoke danced on Dacca with a population of about ten lakhs and also in Comilla and Khulna where the defending West Pakistanis employed tanks, planes and helicopters in a desperate bid to retain their hold. Lt-Gen Tikka Khan, martial law administrator of East Pakistan died in a nursing home at S.15 p. in after being seriously injured when freedom fighters stormed his Dacca residence, reports reaching. With most of the road and rail links completely cut off by the Sheikh's forces, the movement of West Pakistani troops has been ground to a halt. Grim fighting was reportedly in progress for control of the dreaded city of Dacca which is feared to have taken a toll of more than two thousand lives in the current fighting. Hundreds of wounded were lying under the debris of shattered homes, the report said. Reports from inside the troubled land, broadcast by the Free Bangla Radio Stations and corroborated by other sources across the border, said bombs were dropped over Dacca and Khulna. In the bombing of Dacca a large hospital was destroyed and most of its in patients were killed. There was no means of estimating the casualties, believed to run into thousands and uDDuDDD uD DDuDDDDDDDD DDDD DDD হয়েছেন। অপর এক সংবাদে শেখ মুজিবুর রহমানের গ্রেফতারের খবরকে অসত্য বলে প্রচার করা হয়েছিল।