According to police, demonstrators in the German state of Hessen threw stones and bottles and set off smoke bombs and tried to break through police barriers into the event venue, and launched "massive attacks" against their officers, in the early hours of Saturday.
While the bombs fell silent under the watchful eyes of the central paramilitary forces, the war of words in West Bengal escalated just a day ahead of the panchayat elections on Saturday.
A search operation was underway ahead of the West Bengal panchayat polls, on Friday, after police received information that crude bombs and weapons have been stockpiled in the district, an official statement said on Friday.
West Bengal has witnessed several instances of violence during the filing of nominations for the panchayat polls and thereafter. One incident involved the alleged hurling of crude bombs at a Block Development Office (BDO) in Ahmadpur, Birbhum district.
West Bengal has seen several incidents of violence around the filing of nominations for the panchayat polls as well as after, including one where crude bombs were allegedly hurled at a Block Development Office (BDO) at Ahmadpur in Birbhum district.
West Bengal has seen several incidents of violence around the filing of nominations for the panchayat polls as well as after, including one where crude bombs were allegedly hurled at a Block Development Office (BDO) at Ahmadpur in Birbhum district.
In the fresh violence ahead of the Panchayat Polls, clashes had broken out between TMC and Bharatiya Janata Party in North Bengal's Dinhata Cooch recently, resulting in the death of one person.
Earlier on Sunday, West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhary alleged that bombs were being manufactured in almost every house in the villages of Murshidabad and in all other border areas of West Bengal.
Ahead of the Panchayat elections, scheduled to be held on July 8, the state witnessed continuous clashes in various parts of the state, including a violent incident at the Block Development Office in Birbhum's Ahmadpur, where crude bombs were reportedly thrown.
Special Operations Group (SOG) and Romeo Force of the Indian Army recovered five rusted bombs from Seri Chowana village in Poonch, officials said on Sunday.