Counting underway for Bengal’s 6 Assembly seats, Trinamool leads in three
Counting is underway for bypolls to six Assembly constituencies in West Bengal. As per the early trends, Trinamool Congress led three of the six Assembly constituencies.
After two college students were run over by a speeding bus, an irate mob torched two buses, one vehicle and pelted police with stones at EM Bypass in Kolkata (West Bengal) on Saturday, forcing the police to baton-charge to disperse them.
The accident occurred at around 11.30 am when two college students — Biswajit Bhuniya and Sanjay Basu — were hit by a bus at Chingrighata area on the EM Bypass, Bidhannagar city police commissioner Gyanwant Singh said.
“We rushed a huge police contingent to control the situation and we have removed the road blockade. The situation is presently under control,” Singh said.
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An eyewitness said, “The speeding bus broke the traffic signal and hit the youths from behind. Both of them died on the spot. There were no traffic police when the incident happened,” he said.
The driver of the speeding bus has been arrested, police said.
Locals blocked the busy road for about two-and-half hours and accused the police of failing to manage traffic.
They also demanded that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should come and assure them that action should be taken against the guilty policemen.
TMC MLA of the area Sujit Bose rushed to the spot and assured that the guilty would be arrested soon. “We have also spoken to the family members of both the youths who were killed in the accident. The state government will extend all help to the families,” Bose said.
(With agency inputs)
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