Seven persons have been arrested from West Bengal and Jharkhand in connection with the killing of two Trinamool workers, including strongman Srinu Naidu in Kharagpur of West Midnapore district, two days ago, police said on Friday.
"The seven were picked up from places like Ghatal and Jhargram in West Midnapore district, and Jamshedpur in Ranchi," district police superintendent Bharati Ghosh told mediapersons in Midnapore.
Besides killing Srinu and V Dharma, the assailants lobbed bombs and fired indiscriminately inside the Trinamool party office injuring three other workers on Wednesday.
A police officer said the two – Sanjoy Prasad and Krishna Rao – were arrested from Ghatal in the district as they went to a doctor to treat the hand injury apparently caused by the throwing of bombs and firing during the attack at the TMC Councillor's office on Wednesday.
Both the arrested were at one time close to Srinu and apparently fell out over real estate spoils in the area, the officer added.
The two, along with three other TMC workers, were sitting inside the TMC office at Nayakhuli locality of Kharagpur when the miscreants hurled a bomb and opened indiscriminate fire, police said.
The other three injured persons were undergoing treatment at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, they added.
A probe has been launched and no one has been arrested so far, a police officer said, adding that a police picket has been posted in the area as tension escalated there following the incident.
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