Tag: Bengal assembly elections 2021

KOLKATA — Violence erupted in the fourth phase of elections in Bengal in which five people were killed in two separate incidents. Four persons were killed when central forces opened fire on an unruly mob in Sitalkuchi assembly constituency in Mathabhanga block in Cooch Behar district on Saturday. In another incident in the same constituency a first-time voter was killed, taking the total number of deaths to five. Sources in the Election Commission said that a preliminary report that reached the special police observer Vivek Dubey suggests that the central...