• TMC leader killed by 6
    Telegraph | 25 November 2022
  • A leader of the Trinamul Congress’s minority wing in Nadia district was killed by six unidentified persons at a market in Murshidabad’s Nawada on Thursday evening.

    Motirul Sheikh, 43, was the husband of Mira Biswas, the chief of Narayapur 1 gram panchayat in Nadia district.

    Police and local sources said assailants hurled bombs at Sheikh at Sibnagar-Tiyakata village near the Jalangi river when he was headed for home to Hyatapara near Karimpur on his motorcycle, his son seated pillion.

    As Sheikh fell, they attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon. His son, who is a minor, escaped unhurt.

    Doctors at Murshidabad Medical College Hospital declared him brought dead.

    Murshidabad police chief Surinder Singh said a murder case had begun.
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