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• People at flocks could leave Dhaka, as the curfew was slackened from 5 am to 7:30 pm.
  
  
• Pakistan Authority had an announcement at Dhaka, that the situation of the province was under a full and good control of the Military Forces; action had been taken against the ‘armed intruders’ [freedom-fighters]; and other proper measures were in progress against all the enemies of Pakistan.
  
  
• Pakistan People’s Party Chief Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announced in a statement at Karachi, that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had tried to constitute an independent East Pakistan and that is why he had recommended for two separate committees of the National Assembly.
  
  
• A pedestrian company of the Pakistan Army got victim to a trap-hole placed by freedom-fighters at Bishakhali, on the way to Kushtia from Jessore. The force had 9 trucks and 2 jeeps. But the local peasants charged an attack and knocked all the soldiers dead.
  
  
• Major Chittaranjan Dutta, with the 2 companies under his leadership, started action over the main road towards Sylhet from Sherpur-Shadeepur. Another big force charging towards Sylhet that time were the regular soldiers of East Bengal as led by Captain Aziz and in the route of Shreemangal-Kulaura-Karimganj and Charkhanai.
  
  
• The Pak forces attacked from the Jessore Cantonment on the freedom-fighters’ den at Bishakhali. On a counter attack however, the fearless fighters of the Muktibahini left the Pak soldiers scattered and disorganized.
  
  
• Massive clashes took place between Pak soldiers and freedom-fighters at Sherpur and Shadeepur. In both the areas, the freedom-fighters fought with immense valor to free the places from the Pak forces. Most of the 3 platoons of Pak soldiers lost their lives in the freedom-fighters’ hands in this very piece of war. A Pak soldier was searched out and killed by some of the villagers, when he was desperately trying to save himself by hiding inside a paddy-reservoir owned by an agent named Saaola Mia at the village Ilashpur. This war also left 3 martyred and innumerous injured in the freedom-fighters’ side.
  
  
• Defeated to the freedom-fighters on another piece-war at the South side of the River Surma in Sylhet, the Pak force fled to Shalutikor Biman Gha(n)ti.
  
  
• The entire South of Surma, as well as the Town Sylhet at the North, got all free from enemies and under the full possession of the freedom-fighters.
  
  
• Freedom-fighters destroyed a transport fully loaded with Pak soldiers at Jattrabari Road at 8 pm. On an instant reaction, Pak forces started to proceed from Dhaka and Demra to that place of attack with simultaneous firings. But the freedom-fighters could safely return to the nearby villages just after the attack.
  
  
• A Company of EPR under the leadership of Abdul Mazid, Subahdar, Wing 8 of Dinajpur, along with another Platoon of EPR from Wing 9, created a defense zone near Darowani, which is also close to Syedpur on the Syedpur-Nilfamari Sadar Road.
  
  
• While approaching to the freedom-fighters’ spot on Bhushirbandar, the Pak forces faced fires from the freedom-fighters. As a result, the 11 pick-ups of Pak soldiers could not proceed further and had to flee to Syedpur.
  
  
• The Pak armored and firing forces charged a sudden attack on the freedom-fighters at Dash-maail area. Many Bangalee EPRs got martyred at this, when many others were injured as well.
  
  
• The Bangalee sailors of the Pakistani sub-marine ‘Mongroe’ at Toulon (France) had a ‘revolt’. The 13 Bangalee sailors out of the 45 sailors of ‘Mongroe’ left Pakistan Navy and secretly got out from the sub-marine. They then started towards Switzerland.
  
  
• In the Pahartali Railway area, the Pak Army slaughtered dead 11 Bangalees including Railway’s Chief Engineer Mr. Mozammel Chowdhury, Accounts Officer Mr. Abdul Hamid and Mr. L. R. Khan plus their family members and servants. This was just one of the many incidents to express the brutality of the Pak soldiers.
  
  

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