Raiganj: The pre-panchayat poll violence triggered by the killing of a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)) leader Akbar Ali at Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur district on May 2 spread to Islampur, with another CPM worker being killed taking the toll in the political clashes to nine in the past three days, the police said.

Of the dead, four were Congress supporters and five belonged to the CPM, the police said.

Besides the CPM worker who was killed in Chopra, the district Congress alleged that the daughter of a party worker, Farjan Ali, was gang raped allegedly by CPM supporters on May 1 at Sujali village in Islampur.

District Congress secretary Goutam Gupta alleged that four family members of Ali's family were also seriously injured by the CPM activists.

The Congress workers killed were identified as Abdul Haque (62), Hajimuddin (52), Nassir Hossain (32) and Nurul Hossain (34).

The dead CPM workers were Bijoy Roy (35), Akbar Ali (47), Khalilur Rehman (32), Latifur Rehaman (30) and Tasiruddin Ahmed (45).

The police said that CPM supporters looted the house of the Headmaster of Kotgack Junior High School Farjul Ali, a Congress activist.

PTI