Days before the sixth phase of polling, a woman has been killed after some bike-borne men opened fire at her house in Nandigram, which comes under the Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. The BJP has claimed that the woman, who was killed last night, was its worker and the area has seen protests by the party as well as sporadic violence today.
Rathibara Ari, a resident of Nandigram's Sonachura area, was killed last night when some unidentified men on motorcycles fired at her house. Several other people were injured and at least seven are undergoing treatment at a hospital.
Angry BJP workers staged a protest in Nandigram today and some miscreants also set a few shops ablaze.