CPI (M) rebel hacked to death at Onchiyam

KOZHIKODE: The CPI (M) rebel and Area Secretary of Revolutionary Marxist Party at Onchiyam, T.P. Chandrasekharan has been hacked to death by unknown assailants at Vallikkadu in Vadakara, Kozhikode district.


Chandrasekharan, who was returning home at 10:30 pm in his motorbike, was blocked by assailants who came in a van. The assailants created a tense situation by hurling bomb at the bike before hacking Chandrasekharan to death. His head was severely injured. Though he was taken to Vadakara Government Hospital, his life could not be saved.


The dead body has been brought to Kozhikode Medical Hospital mortuary. UDF will observe a state-wide hartal today as a protest against the brutal murder. Hartal will be observed between 6 am and 6 pm.