Maoists shoot two Trinamool Congress workers in West Bengal
Jhargram (West Bengal):Maoists shot dead two Trinamool Congress workers at Bandgoda village in West Bengal's West Midnapore District on Saturday. According to the police, rebels chopped the limbs of Paban Mahato (38) and Kaushik Datto (35). Both victims were casual workers with the State Electricity Department
at Manikpara in Jhargram. The Maoists also fired 11 rounds at them from close range.
Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Trinamool Congress leader Sisir
Adhikari claimed that Mahato and Datto were his party workers. District Magistrate
Narayan Swarup Nigam said that an inquiry has been ordered into the incident.
"They were missing since yesterday afternoon when they went to distribute electric
bills to households in Rasua village. An inquiry is on," Nigam said. Police have
recovered Maoist posters from the spot, which claimed Datto and Mahato were police
informers.
