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TMC activist arrested for party leader's murder at Bhangar

Kolkata, July 13 (UNI) A Trinamool Congress activist, Mofazzal Mollah, was today arrested in connection with the party block president Razzak Khan's murder at Bhangar in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, official sources said.
Khan (38), a TMC block president of Chaltaberia in Bhangar, was allegedly shot several times and then received wounds from choppers while returning home after a party meeting on Thursday evening.
Both Khan and the accused had attended the same meeting, which was presided over by TMC MLA
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