1971-11-15
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov. 14 —The Pakistani radio asserted that six Indian soldiers who were captured in action yesterday near Dharmadaha in the Kushtia district of East Pakistan admitted today that regular Indian troops had been involved in attacks on East Pakistan's borders.
Twenty‐four Indian soldiers were killed in the clash with Pakistani soldiers near Dharmadaha, according to a military communiqué.
The radio said that the captured soldiers belonged to the First Naga Battalion of the Seventh Mountain Brigade, which forms part of the Fourth Mountain Division. It gave the names of the captured soldiers and said that five had come from Uttar Pradesh, a state in India, and that the sixth man was Nepalese.