In such an event, one youngman named "Shahed" attacked a lieutenant of Pakistan army, tackled him and 3 of his subordinate troops alone and bare handedly and then obtained their arms.

The Bengali mass of Rangpur City along with a huge number of tribal Santali fighters launched a pre-emptive attack on the cantonment with local arms like spears and poisonous arrows.

[2] Showing extraordinary understanding of military strategies and valour, they flanked the Pakistani defences adjacent to the cantonment almost undetected and attacked them from a very unexpected and unprotected direction.

They in the way of penetrating the Pakistani defence column suddenly came under heavy machine-gun fires and in it, many Bengalis and Santalis laid down their lives.

Although failed initially, this attack downed the morale of the Pakistani troops and they in retaliation started taking revenge on the corpses of the martyrs by burning those with patrols, executing existing Bengali troops of Pakistan army inside the cantonment, and torturing other family members and civilians stranded in the nearby Rangpur Central Jail.