"An eyewitness account of the gruesome murders of the gruesome murders of the Hindu passengers in trains is provided by a passenger who escaped by jumping from a window. When the train arrived at Bhaira Bazar at 10 p.m. all the Hindu passengers were forced to detrain by uniformed Ansars, Later in the night they were put into separate compartments marked for them. After the train had started about half a dozen men who had apparently been hanging on the doorhandles got into the compartments occupied by the Hindus. The killers then locked the doors. The windows were mostly shut down They demanded the passengers to hand over to them all they had. Then they started to attack the passengers with knives. A baby was snatched away from a woman passenger and killed and ultimately the woman was also killed. The wails in the compartment soon died down. When the train stopped over the Bhairab bridge, the bodies were thrown into the river,"
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quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 89
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