"Utter lawlessnes prevailed in the city. Policemen went round in trucks asking Hindu shop-keepers to close Hindu shops and homes were looted and burnt, while their temples and ashrams were plundered. Armed Ansars and some policemen were in evidence everywhere. Property worth four to five crores of rupees was destroyed or looted, Hindu homes, shops, temples and ashrams were looted in other areas of Dacca city especially in Lalbagh, Nawaganj, Islampur and Armenittolla. The East Bengal Government gave the figure of Hindus murdered during three days of holocaust of the Hindus in Dacca as 200, while even the figure of 600 to 1000 given by Pandit Nehru was low. Narayanganj: A large number of Hindu passengers — exact figure unascertainable — waiting to catch a steamer were done to death and thrown into the river... Women in the house raised an alarm against police high-handedness (it was established that the police had tried to rape the women). Nine men responded to their alarm and clashed with the police. One policeman died.... Two days later, a party of policemen... arrived on the spot and assisted by Ansars and Muslim mobs started large scale looting of the houses in the village: Most of the villagers of Kalshira were Scheduled Caste Hindus. The trouble soon spread to several other neighbouring villages... the whole of Bageerhat sub-division went through a reign of terror... others were unable to escape because of a steel ring thrown around the villages by the local police and the Ansars."