CHITTAGONG OUTRAGE
BENGALI GIRL’S FATE. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.20 p.m.) Calcutta, September 27. Thirteen Were injured, one fatally, in the Chittagong outrage. The Bengali girl whose body was found nearby died as a result of poisoning herSeli. She was dressed in male clothes. She was the daughter of the head clerk' of the Chittagong municipality. Two live bombs Were later discovered on the institute premises.
Terrorists armed with stolen police rifles, reVolvers and bombs, raided the Assam-Bengal Railway Institute at Pahartali, Chittagong, when a social gathering was in progress. The raiders threw a bomb inside, killing an aged European woman and wounding two police officers and six Europeans. The raiders escaped. Later the body of a young woman was found near the institute with several bullet wounds and was identified as that of a woman who had been missing since the shooting affray at Dhalgat, Chittagong, on June 14, when Captain Cameron was killed in an encounter with terrorists.
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Southland Times, Issue 21823, 28 September 1932, Page 7
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161CHITTAGONG OUTRAGE Southland Times, Issue 21823, 28 September 1932, Page 7
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