One youth was stabbed to death and three others seriously injured in a political clash allegedly between the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers at Kanjikode in Pudussery village near here on Wednesday.
Bharatheeya Janata Party (BJP) has called for a 12-hour hartal from 12 p.m to 12 a.m on Wednesday to protest against the killing and attack on RSS workers.
Shops and business establishments were closed down and the bus services were suspended immediately after the flash hartal was announced in the District.
In the attack an RSS worker Ratheesh (24) of Kalandithara, Kurudikkad, Kanjikode died on the way to the District hospital. His friends Vinu and Lenin were admitted to a private hospital in Coimbatore and Girish was admitted to the Thrissur Medical College.
They were attacked while they were travelling in a bus from Kanjikode to Palakkad allegedly by a four –member-gang of CPI (M) workers.
The assailants stopped the bus and threatened the passengers and stabbed the four youths inside the bus.
The injured were taken to the District Hospital in the jeep of Dy. Superintendent of Police M.K. Pushkaran who was passing through that route. The body of the deceased Ratheesh is kept in the mortuary of the District Hospital and the cremation will take place on Thursday.
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