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 bridge was submerged and no vehicle could come there and they had to resort to boat for their withdrawal.

 Finding them escaping we continued to fire with automatic weapons at those people on the boats. The firing from the bridge site was almost diminishing except one LMG which kept on firing. When our LMGS and MGs were at the boat we could hear the shouting of some people saying 'Bachao' 'Bachao' with the reflection of starlight we could see one of the boats going down onto water due to impact of firing. When we captured the bridge it was 4-30 a.m. We ran short of ammunition and whole lot of freedom fighters were totally exhausted although their morale was sky high. Now the question of demolition of bridge camp up. But should we take a risk at this stage as in the morning we expected some re-inforcement from enemy. We decided to pull block to our camp. As the preparation of deep mine charges which could be used for placing there on the embankment after digging hole, at least would need 2 hours time. Morcover our chordite, tonators meant for making ring man circuit were spoiled during fighting. More, we lost one of our valiant fighter L/Nk Mohar Ali who had a bullet in his chest and 2 of the FFs got seriously injured, who needed immediate surgery to save their lives.

 I must say the mission was partially successful. Although we could not demolish the bridge but we killed 2 Pak army soldier and 6 Rajakars. Their dead bodies were recovered from the river water 2 days later. We confirmed later that more than a dozen of Pak army and Rajakars were seriously injured in that operation. This action has really put the morale of Pak army down to their knee.

 Two successful operation during the month of August did ensure the movement of troops confined only during the day time in minimum of 2 vehicles with adequate strength. More regular troops were deployed for guarding the bridges and culverts thus depleting the finishing strength. A large body of trained personal i.c. regular army was used for patrolling in the main line of communication i.e. road Rajshahi- Nawabgonj which could have been done entirely by paramilitia. This particular operation really opened my eyes about the need of leadership during any army operation as to how a body of armed personnel could be led successfully even against the odds.