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At about 1500 hours, there were renewed attacks
on the police post including the reported
employment of a heavy machine-gun from
C.T.
Fire bombs were also used as well as
small arms and home-made bombs. At 1500 hours
it was decided that a military operation should
be mounted to relieve the police in the
advanced post. At 1550 hours 1/10 Gurkha
Regiment advanced with armoured cars. By
1655 hours the forward police positions had
been relieved and the curfew, declared at
1545 hours, brought into effect. There was
some sporadic but ineffective firing up to
about 1700 hours. The army did not fire
their weapons. There were no further
incidents. Total police casualties were five
dead (two Pakistanis and three Chinese) and
eleven wounded. No arrests were made and no
bodies of civilians were recovered.
The men involved in the attack are
believed to have been from C.T. including
militia. There is no evidence of any
uniformed personnel being involved. Two or
three light machine-guns appear to have been
used and several rifles. There are
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unsubstantiated reports of the use of a heavy
machine-gun, of grenade dischargers and of
mortars. The latter two are thought to be
unlikely. The police are convinced that
in the opening stages fire came from C.T.
particularly from the machine-gun referred
to previously. They also believe the heavy
machine-gun fire to have come across the border.
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