00:01Hundreds of people have been arrested following post-election violence in the eastern Indian
00:06state of West Bengal this week, which has left at least three people dead.
00:11Among those killed was 41-year-old Chandranath Rath, an aide to Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP,
00:18leader Suvendu Adhikari, who was shot dead by unidentified assailants near his home
00:24in Madhyamgram, on the outskirts of Kolkata, on Wednesday night.
00:38The killing came just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP secured a landslide victory
00:45in the West Bengal Assembly elections. The BJP won 207 out of 294 seats in the State Assembly,
00:52marking its first-ever electoral victory in the state of more than 100 million people.
00:58According to reports, gunmen on motorcycles ambushed Rath's vehicle before opening fire,
01:04striking him multiple times in the chest. Adhikari, who is widely expected to become the next chief
01:10minister of West Bengal, described the incident as a cold-blooded murder. Authorities said the
01:16attackers fled the scene on motorcycles bearing fake registration numbers and remain at large.
01:22A doctor at Apollo Hospital told AFP that Rath was brought dead with multiple bullet injuries
01:28to the chest.
01:39a student with a close-up.
01:40The champion of the Rath will be in a group of victorious soldiers, that appeared to be
01:40a guest. The leader of the TNR, on a downside of a challenge with a half-blooded soldier is
01:40The leader of the TNR is a high-rores campaign in the middle of the day, and as a head
01:40of the
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