The official Government Radio broadcasting from Dacca, last night dropped its pretense that the situation was "normal" and "under control." It reported that "several thousand" extra troops had been airlifted to Chittagong to quell mass disturbances.
The official radio, as well as Pakistan envoys abroad, repudiated a report on Radio Bangla Desh that the martial law chief in East Pakistan Lieut-Gen. Tikka Khan, had been killed by a freedom fighter.
The Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi, Mr. Sajjad Hyder, said yesterday Gen. Khan was "very much alive."
But the clandestine radio repeated its claim and said that four aides who were with him were killed also. Reports coming across the border in the Tripura region of north-east India said the general was a victim of a petrol bomb attack in Central Dacca.