India, Feb. 1 -- A 40-year-old Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker was murdered on Friday at Naihati in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, said police.

Santosh Yadav, was dragged out of an auto-rickshaw and attacked by motorcycle borne assailants. "He was first hit with bricks on his head. The goons shot him after he fell down," said a police officer.

Yadav was taken to the Naihati state general hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival.

"We have registered a case. Investigation is going on. No one is arrested so far," said an officer of Naihati police station.

Locals said that Yadav, a local businessman, was known as a TMC party worker in the locality.

"Yadav was returning home from work in an auto-rickshaw, when bike-b...