The damaged autorickshaw belonging to slain BJP worker C.K. — File photoViolent BJP, CPI(M) confrontation has turned the district into a tinderbox . Within hours a mob surrounded the house of autorickshaw driver and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker C.K. A couple of days later a reporter of a TV channel here received a phone call from a local BJP worker at Payyannur. This is the usual story in the killing fields of Kannur, an urge for vengeance driving rival groups.

Source: The Hindu September 25, 2016 20:15 UTC