601 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড In a development ominous for the United Nations, a grenade was hurled two nights ago at their head quarters in a Dacca suburb. But did not explode. The most worrying incident for the military authorities was the attempted attack on the airport. The three inch bombs, in fact, fell on the cholera laboratory. There was much perplexity about this until it was realized that the laboratory is in a direct line with the airfield; and that the shells, which must have been fired without a forward observer to correct the aim, had fallen only 600 yards sort of the fields. As a result of these and other incidents the army and police in Dacca are tense and on full alert. Residents say more troops are in the city than a few weeks ago, there are more check-points on road, and guards on important buildings. Outside immediate Dacca area, other groups in the past few days have attacked road and rail links to Mymenshingh. Four days ago guerrillas blew up a railway bridge between Tungi and Narsingdi north of Dacca. The engine and some carriages tumbled into a river. According to one report, Pakistan newspapers confirm the attacks on the bridge, but say casualties on the train were very few. Sources here say the new groups are made up largely of students. They are assigned to areas where they used to live and where their families often still live. Some, indeed, have never left the city since March except for two weeks of training. Money to support them is collected from sympathizers by political groups who take no part in military action. The political groups arose spontaneously well organized. But they manage to put out a clandestine newspaper and distribute Bangladesh leaflets printed in Calcutta. Reports about continuing army brutality reinforces public sympathy for the Mukti Bahini effort, in spite of accidents like the injured medical student and civilian casualties from shelling in border towns. Indeed, it is an index of some popular attitudes towards the army that rumors attributing the shelling to Pakistani guns are circulating. If anything is nonsense this is yet such reports are widely believed. Elsewhere in the province, the Pakistan Army seems to have made little progress in eliminating areas of Mukti Bahini strength.
