a little ahead we could locate the en posn. It was a triple storied big building of Agriculture department where the ends had taken shelter and started firing form.
En had located my pl and opened up with MG and LMGS. The whole pl of mine is now on the forward edge of the small built up arca hardly 400-500 yds away from the en building. Once I tried to get a little more closer, the en MG opened up and I fell flat on the ground behind a small tree, it could not hit me. Sep Noor Mohammed of EPR with his LMG No. 2 started following me in the front behind the cover of the fold of tc3h land. En now opened up with all of his weapons. Along with civilian Asaf I crawled a little more ahead behind a sand dump and now the building was under my SMGs. range. The building was now almost encircled from three sides at a distance of 100-200 yd. Exchange of fire started between my pl and the en. It was easy for us to locate the en inside the building through the glass panes form 1" floor to 2nd floor. Suddenly a Rocket Launcher was fired from the building and that below a small mango tree behind which Sepoy Noor Mohammed of my pl was firing from his LMG. Miraculously the LMG No.1 and No.2 were not hit immediately after that another Rocket Launcher was fired now on my position which, God knows how, slipped on the top of the sand dump and burst behind me. I fell back and now started using my Rocket Launcher towards the building and that became very effective. At 1030 hrs. Two cn Sabre Jets arrived over my posn. Staffed and bombed the Radio Chittagong which was about 1000 yds in front of my present location and was occupied by our troops under sub sabed Ali Sarker.
We could not capture the building during day time, immediately after the last night we encircled the building and started guarding it so that en cannot escape. No firing was there at night. Early in the morning nest day. I took the platoon and charged inside the building and found the following inside it:—
Five en dead bodies, a half- dying Lance Naik who died later on and an alive but severely injured sepoy named Mohammed Akbar. When asked he said that he belonged to Ilamza Company of 3rd SSG (Command) battalion. A pl of 30 men under command Capt. Sajjad came at night and occupied the building with a view to blow up the Kalurghat railways bridge. The rest of the en fled a way in the darkness of the night leaving the following things behind:—
MG 1A3 one LMG 7.62 Chinese- One G-3 Rifles-two, SMG-one, SMG 7.62 Chinese- two,40 mm Rocket Launcher-there with Rockets, Wireless set GRC-9 one, complete with all accessories. 7mm Walther pistol- one, vary light pistols- two, commando knife- onc, commando belts-7 pairs, commando boots-7 pairs, commando barels-8, 7.62 ammunitions-2,000 in belts and magazines and huge quantity of explosives.
Thousands of public got together in the building and started cheering us. We collected all those captured arms and ammunitions and brought to my defence, unfortunately, en Sep Akbar also died on the way out of severe pain. The Chawkidar of the same agriculture building and the other public took those en dead bodies and buried them on the North-East corner of the building. In the afternoon Major (now Brig) Ziaur
