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.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that more than 12 people have lost their lives so far in the violence that broke out in several areas in West Bengal on panchayat poll day.
A former Afghan interpreter who immigrated with his family from Afghanistan to America in 2021 was shot and killed in Washington, DC on Monday, while on an extra shift as a Lyft driver, authorities said, CNN reported.
Lightning has killed at least three people and injured two others in three different incidents in Jamshoro and Badin districts of Sindh, Dawn reported.
A booth agent of an independent candidate and a polling agent of a BJP were allegedly killed in two separate violence-related incidents during voting for single-phase panchayat elections in West bengal on Saturday.
In a hit-and-run incident in the upscale Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad, a GHMC employee was killed after his two-wheeler was rammed by a speeding high-end vehicle on Friday.