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81 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড The best available estimates were that when the crisis began about 26.000 soldiers were in East Pakistan, a region of more than 75 million people. The number of troops had possibly risen to 30,000 or mote when fighting broke out. There were signs by last Wednesday that the army was getting ready to move, A munitions ship had been sitting in Chittagong harbor for several weeks with dockers refusing to unload it. On Wednesday the Army began trying to unload it in defiance of the Awami League. Unconfirmed reports, from Chittagong told of clashes of civilian blockades being thrown up to block army movements and of 14 tanks being brought into the city. Several other clashes between the army and civilians were reported from other parts of East Pakistan, Rumored death tolls went up to 50.