Indian journalists who penetrated into Pakistan today said that the Army had been surrounded by mobs and routed in the northern town of Rangpur.

An unidentified Pakistan journalist from Dacca, who crossed into the border town of Agartalla, 50 miles east of Dacca, claimed that at least 35,000 people had been killed in the provincial capital after the Army moved in last week.

The journalist said that Shaikh Mujibur had left his home just before the Army moved in to suppress the independence movement on Friday night. But he believed that the Shaikh's son. Shaikh Kammal had been killed. "When I left Dacca charred bodies were lying everywhere." he said.

A radio station calling itself Dacca Radio came on the air today to say that the situation in East Pakistan was now completely under control.

But the radio then broadcast Bengali nationalist tunes, which would indicate that the station was probably a clandestine one.


Delhi, March 31.—Radio Pakistan said today that federal troops had brought the city of Chittagong under control. The rebel radio had claimed that the entire port was in danger of being destroyed by bombing and fires—U.P.I.

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