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be selected. Dr. Alam, a final year student of Rajshahi Medical College was also amongst those. We were given a thorough briefing by Maj. Gyas about his plan of operation. Those were the days of heavy flood around Rajshahi-Nawabgonj arca. The strategic bridge was located 19 miles away from Rajshahi Town. We set out in 3 large carrier boats (meant for carrying paddy) for out target by 11.00 a.m. in 3 groups. Major weapon we carried were one 2"x Vicar machine guns, 2x2" morters, 8 LMGs, 8 stens, 20 rifles, one grenade with each one of us also with us we also with us we had 450 kg of explosive. As we had paucity of explosives our leaders carried 250 kg of Gelatine explosives and 20 numbers of anti-tank mines of 10 lbs of explosives each one of them having Haripur bridge was demolished a week before with similar type of combination in explosives.

 The R V from where we started was Faridpur BOP of Ex BDR which remained throughout in possession of regular forces of Bangladesh Niamita Bahini under Maj. Gyas. We also had 6 more BOPS under our command throughout the war of liberation all along river Padma and Mahananda. We expected to reach the destination although in rowing sail boats in 12 hours time. We carried with us haversack lunch. When we reached near our target we lost our direction as the area was totally submerged with flood water and dark. IIowever we managed to get the direction with the help of a local person and reached to our assembly area of the target at 0010 hrs approx 2 hours later than schedule time. We got ourselves unboarded approx. 1000 yards away from boat. We started making in diamond head information. When we moved about 200 yds we found that the road was submerged which was leading towards Avoya bridge. We continued to move very slowly in a keen -deep water. We came slowly upto 100 yds, and we could see the high bridge in the twilight of the sky, and it was already 0100 hrs almost 50 minutes after we got down from the boat. We kept on moving, and the morale of out boys were very high. When we came within 40-50 yds from the bridge suddenly 5/6 LMGs opened fire on us. A big shower of bullets flew over our head. We all were perplexed and never expected such a surprise. Suddenly I heard Maj. Gyas shouting at the top of his voice `get dispersed and take position.' Most of our people tried to get off the main road but they could not go much further from the knee-deep water. Most of the freedom fighters got into neck-deep water and around some submerged houses. For about 4/5 minutes there was complete confusion as the machine gun fire was showering over our head. I found Major Gyas standing in the middle of the road and I was next to him and during that period of first 2 minutes immediately after shouting for position, he opened up with his favorite Chinese sub- machine gun which he always carried during the operations. IIc exhausted 2 morc magazines. Meanwhile the Vicar machine guns which were mounted up at the enemy position.

 Now the exchange of fire from both the sides continued. I saw our leader moving towards the ambush site and whole lot of freedom fighters started following him blindly shouting. In knee to neck-deep water we continued fighting and tried to capture the bridge. Enemy also continued with their resistance to retain the bridge and gave a stiff resistance. After about 3 hrs of fighting we saw enemy getting out of the bridge by 3 boats tied on the side of the bridge. Later we realised that the road on the other side of the