The mutiny took place in Bogra cantonment under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Zaman . The government of Bangladesh was preoccupied with Japan Airlines Flight 472 which was hijacked and had landed in Dhaka . Enlisted men had killed their officers and there were reports of gunfire in Bogra town . The 22nd Bengal Regiment had mutinied . After the mutiny had failed , hundreds of soldiers were executed and buried in mass graves in Rajshahi . Syed Faruque Rahman one of the assassins of Sheikh Mujib was involved in the mutiny and his old unit was stationed in Bogra at that time
Japan Airlines Flight 472
Japan Airlines Flight 472 (1977)
1977 Bogra mutiny