CPI(M) worker hacked to death in Kerala

A Communist Party of India (Marxist) worker was killed in Kerala’s Kannur district on Monday. The 38-year-old CPI(M) worker C V Dhanaraj was allegedly hacked to death by an unidentified gang at Payyanur, police said today.

According to sources, a BJP worker was also killed in Kannur on the same day. 

The assailants who came in a jeep and motorcycles attacked Dhanaraj, a native of Kunnaru in the district, with machetes around 10.30 PM yesterday when he was entering his house, police said.

Though he was rushed to Pariyaram Medical College Hospital by locals, he succumbed on the way, they said.

Police suspect the murder was related to the political violence in the district post elections.Police have registered a case and are investigating.