পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৯০

758 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ২৯৮ মেঘালয় সীমান্তে গোলাবর্ষণ হিন্দুস্থান স্ট্যান্ডার্ড ২৬ মে, ১৯৭১ HINDUSTAN STANDARD, MAY 26, 1971 MEGHALAYA BORDER SHELLED NINE BSF MEN KILLED Shillong, May 25 - While 22 persons including nine Indian Border Security Force men were killed today in heavy shelling by Pakistani troops in Dalu Sector in Meghalaya's Garo Hills district, according to official reports, the Assam Chief Minister. Mr. Mahendramohan Choudhury, told the Assembly this evening that the BSF had 'successfully repulsed' Pakistani aggression in three different sectors of the Assam - Bangladesh border, agencies report. The Chief Minister who was making a statement in the Assembly on Pakistani attacks on Indian territory in Assam said, the Assam Government had asked the prime Minister and Defense Minister "to take immediate action to clear the Pakistani Army from our areas and to safeguard the sanctity of our territory." Mr. Choudhury said the civilian population in four bordering villages had evacuated to safer places because of Pakistani intrusion deep into Indian territory in Garo Hills and Karimganj sectors. The villages were Dalu in Garo Hills of Meghalaya, and Sutarkandi, Jerapatta and Gobindpur in Karimganj sector, he said. In the shelling in Dalu sector, besides the 22 killed, 11 civilians received injuries when Pakistani shells and machine-gun bullets, aimed at the Indian border outpost (Dalu) fell deep into jungled interior, the official reports said. According to the reports one BSF Junior Commissioned Officer was kidnapped by Pak-troops. The reports quoted civilian rescuers as fearing the casualties on the Indian side might rise as they were still scanning the woods in search of bodies. About 200 Pakistani troops were also reported patrolling in Killapara area inside the Indian territory in this sector. But the area was under complete control of India in the evening. Our Tura Correspondent says: The gang of Pakistani troops, armed with rifles, machine guns and mortars, which intruded into Dalubazar on Garo Hills border of Meghalaya at about 7 a.m. today numbered about 100 and resorted to indiscriminate firing for about an hour.