CPM, Trinamool Supporters Clash in WB, 20 Wounded

Following a clash between activists of CPI-M and Trinamool Congress in Khanakul in Hooghly district in a turn battle, Nanoor in Birbhum district saw a repetition this morning.

Police said that widespread clashes occurred at villages like Satra and Basapara in the Nanoor police station area since morning in which muskets and bombs were freely used.

Trinamool Congress alleged that in the attack by CPM activists, four its party workers were wounded. Police, however, said that nobody had been hospitalized from the affected villages.

On Monday six Trinamool activists and a constable were injured after armed men, allegedly the CPI(M) supporters, raided houses of Trinamool Congress workers at Ishanpara, Katapukur and other adjacent villages with bombs and firearms.