Washington Star/Evening Star

DACCA, EAST PAKISTAN. - The Pakistani army has attacked at least five villages within 30 miles of Dacca in the last four days, killing Hindu men and burning homes and markets in pre-dawn raids, reliable sources said today.

Arriving at one village, Boliadi, this correspondent passed an army column leaving the place and saw dead Hindu men and the bazaar and houses burning.

From nearby villages, rifle fire could be heard and columns of smoke were rising.

Residents of Boliadi said the raids started Friday, the day after the arrival in Dacca of four members of the British Parliament investigating conditions in East Pakistan and refugee camps in India.

HINDU SECTIONS ATTACKED

The people in Boliadi said the soldiers attacked the Hindu section of their village at 4 a.m. yesterday.

A Hindu woman held her husband in her arms. He had been shot in the neck. Another sari-clad woman moaned over the body of her husband.

Across a small creek in a tiny corrugated iron house lay the body of a white-haired man with a bullet wound in his back.

Residents said at least five or six other corpses were in the village.

The commander of the troop column identified himself only as Col. Omar. He said his men were on a "routine patrol" and refused to give details.

LOOTING REPORTED

He led about two dozen men in regular army uniforms carrying automatic rifles and ammunition boxes.

Two men earned transistor radios and others carried goods wrapped in cloth. One villager said the troops looted houses and market stalls before setting them ablaze.

As they spoke, flames shot up from tin shacks. The heat buckled the metal and burned the underpinnings, bringing them to the ground.

Women wailed in Bengali: "They have taken everything." Local Moslems said about 100 Hindu families lived in the area. Most had fled to the tall jute fields or to nearby creeks and forests.

The Moslems appeared untouched.