[4] dismisses claims that 10,000 were killed as "unhelpful", and argues that the reported number of attackers could have shot no more than several hundred people before running out of ammunition.

[5] The majority of people killed in the massacre were men, although an unknown number of women and children were murdered as well.

By May 15, 1971, large numbers of refugees from nearby localities gathered at Chuknagar, as rumors broke out of an impending Pakistani attack.

On 20 May, around 10:00, a group of Pakistani military personnel equipped with semi-automatic rifles and light machine guns came on around three trucks.

[citation needed] Many people drowned as they jumped into the river in a largely futile attempt to flee the carnage.