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Nandigram rocked by unrest again; CPM leader killed
LAST UPDATE: Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 - 4:58:57 AM
NANDIGRAM: Fresh trouble erupted in Nandigram after a CPM local committee secretary was killed during an exchange of fire between Trinamool Congress and CPM activists at Rajaramchak village, near here, on Wednesday.
Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) jawans and police rushed to the spot and used batons to disperse the warring groups, police said.
Two Trinamool Congress workers were injured in the lathicharge.
According to the police, Niranjan Mondal, CPM's local committee secretary, was returning home from Kolkata when he was caught in the crossfire and received gunshots in his head.
Mondal died on the spot. EFR jawans launched combing operations in nearby Kalicharanpur and Sonachura to track down the assailants.
No arrests have been made yet. EFR and armed police personnel were patrolling the area in view of the flared up tension.
Terming the killing "planned murder", CPM district secretary Ashok Guria said the party had called a 24-hour bandh on Thursday at Khejuri I and II, Nandigram I and II and Chandipur blocks.
Protests would also be staged in all other blocks, he added.
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