"When the train entered into Mymensingh district crossing the river, it was surrounded on the bridge, The driver of the engine stopped it purposely. The murderers attacked the passengers from both sides of the bridge. Those who dived into the river for safety and tried to swim ashore were drowned, being hit on the head by brick batting. According to Pierre about 2000 Hindus were killed this way.”"
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Taya Zinkin, the representative of the London Economist and Manchester Guardian who wrote about the killings of India-bound Hindu passengers on Bhairab bridge on the basis of an interview with Pierre Dillani. also in Biśvāsa Sukumāra & Satō Hiroshi. (1993). Religion and politics in bangladesh and west bengal : a study of communal relations. quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 78
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