India, July 13 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) zonal unit president Pijush Ghosh was shot dead early Sunday in West Bengal's Birbhum district, making him the second TMC zonal leader and third party worker to be killed in the last three days, police said.

Ghosh, president of the TMC's Sirindhipur zonal unit and an office bearer of the local panchayat samity in Birbhum, had left home on his motorcycle around 12.30 am after receiving a phone call. "A woman, identified as Mousumi Mal, allegedly saw a man shooting Ghosh from behind around 2 am. Ghosh went to meet Mal, a preliminary probe has revealed," a police officer, requesting anonymity, said.

Mal reportedly raised an alarm after she found Ghosh on the road outside her home with a bullet inj...