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Ruling Trinamool Congress leader shot dead in West Bengal

| | Apr 17, 2017, at 06:44 am
Kolkata, Apr 16 (IBNS): A local leader of Trinamool Congress (TMC) was shot dead by few unidentified miscreants at Bagula village under Hanskhali development block area in West Bengal's Nadia district on Sunday night, reports said.

According to reports, few men armed with guns entered a TMC party office, where TMC's Hanskhali block president and head of Bagula-I Gram Panchayat- Dulal Biswas- was holding meeting with his party activists, at around 9 pm. and fired at least nine bullets aiming at him.

Dulal Biswas was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead.

A heavy police force have been deployed in the area and Nadia district police have started investigation into the matter while none has been arrested in connection with the incident so far.

Local leaders of TMC claimed that BJP-sheltered miscreants committed the crime, while BJP state president Dilip Ghosh denied his party's involvement in the case.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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