Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that 19 people were killed on the day of the Panchayat polls adding that the presence of the central security forces in and around the polling stations will ensure that voters cast their vote fearlessly.
After a wave of violence that claimed at least 10 lives in West Bengal during Panchayat polls on Saturday, a family member of 62-year-old Congress worker who allegedly killed in the Murshidabad demanded security.
Two persons were apprehended for allegedly killing two people over a dispute on money transaction in the Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh, the officials said on Sunday.
A truck carrying diesel overturned on the Makran Coastal Highway in Pakistan on Sunday resulting in the death of three people, ARY News reported citing the rescue sources.
"Three persons including a woman were killed, and three others were injured in the incidents. The injured are undergoing treatment," Ramji Mishra, Additional District Magistrate, Mainpuri told ANI.
In a day of chaos in Kisumu, two people were shot dead at Nyawita and Kondele estates, while one of the protesters succumbed while undergoing treatment at the Migori Referral Hospital, confirmed that the man died at the casualty department.
Asking people to take violence off the purview of politics and how lack of peace will affect the new generation, he said that violence needs to be "nipped in the bud".
West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary visited the hospital in West Bengal's Murshidabad on Saturday to meet the family member of a 62-year-old man who was killed in a bombing incident following the panchayat polls.