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In the latest flashpoint, just hours ahead of the panchayat polls, a house was vandalised in Murshidabad as the workers of the Trinamool Congress and Congress came to blows on Friday night. A team from the local police station reached the spot after receiving word of the incident. In another incident, the home of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate in West Bengal was allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers.
A 40-year-old Trinamool Congress activist was killed and at least 25 others were injured in lightning strikes during Sunday's thunderstorms in West Bengal's Bankura district, police said.