Sherpur Ferry Ghat on the Khushiara river is the only connecting ink between Sylhet and Akhaura in the Comilla sector.
Meanwhile four Mkuti Fouj men were injured when PAF shelled Golapganj, 13 km east of Sylhet town where the Mukti Fouj guerillas had earlier liquidated a Pakistani detachment of 22 soldiers in an ambush within their firing range.
Pakistani troops, using gunboats were nearing Barisal town, shelling and burning villages on both sides of the madhumati. The gunboats entered through the Bay of Bengal into the Madhumati which has innumerable tributaries touching the entire district. This important district with population of 30 lakh had so far remained untouched by fighting between the Pakistan army and the Liberation Force.
Freedom fighters using guerilla tactics reportedly attacked the radio station in Khulna, which is held by the Pakistan army. In Chittagonjg sector, Pakistan army columns are trying hard to restore communications between Chittagong and Comilla and Chittagong and Sitakund. The road and rail links in this area have been disrupted by the Liberation Force.
Fifty Pakistani troops were killed today by a guerilla squad of the Liberation Army on the bank of Titas river near Sabaepur. Mukti Fouj sources from across the border said.
The Pakistani troops were busy preparing themselves for the day’s routine. when the guerillas stealthily entered the camp and killed them in a surprise attack.
In Dacca area the Pakistani troops were being harassed by guerillas of the Liberation force.
The Pakistani army was reported to be withdrawing from Panchagarh near the Indian border after leavin behind some armed irregulars. Pakistani troops were also withdrawing from Nilphamari.
Near Laksham railway station in Comilla sector, Liberation Force ambushed a Pakistani army column, which was moving towards Chittagong and killed a number of Pakistani in the encounter.
The Pakistan army after heavy bombing raids and artillery attack has succeeded in wrestling control of Mymensingh and Bogra towns from the Liberation Force.
Reports from Bangladesh today said that Mymensingh fell to the Pakistanis yesterday after heavy fighting lasting over a week. Before the Pakistani columns entered this strategic town outlying areas were pounded by their air force and shelled by heavy artillery and mortars.
Armoured columns moving in from Santahar and Gorahghat took Bogra in an attack without much opposition as the freedom fighters withdrew in the face of superior fire power. The Pakistani columns from Bogra were on the move towards Jamalpr on the north-west, reports said.
