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A strike called by the ruling leftists has paralysed life in the troubled southern enclave of Nandigram in India's West Bengal state.
The strike is to protest against the murder of a Marxist leader at a school in Nandigram on Wednesday.
Niranjan Mondal was shot dead as he stepped out of a local school where he was a teacher.
A day earlier, another Marxist leader was critically injured when assailants fired at him.
Nandigram has seen a lot of violence over the last year, with locals opposing plans to set up an economic zone there.
Trouble started in Muslim-dominant Nandigram after the Marxist-led communist government in West Bengal tried to acquire a huge swathe of agricultural land in the area to allow Indonesia's Salem group to set up a hub for chemical industries.
More than 40 people have died in clashes between the communists and opposition supporters in the area.
The Marxists have blamed the latest attacks on the opposition party Trinamul Congress.
(BBC)
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