Kolkata, Feb. 12 -- A Bengali migrant worker was killed in Pune, Maharashtra, in what West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee described as a "barbaric murder" for speaking in Bengali.

Twenty-four-year-old Sukhen Dhiren Mahato was from the Bandwan village in Puruliadistrict of West Bengal, Banerjee said in a post on X, adding that the killing "was nothing short of a hate crime."

"I am shaken, enraged and sickened beyond words by the barbaric murder of Sukhen Mahato, a 24-year-old migrant worker from Bandwan in Purulia, the sole earning member of his family, in Pune, Maharashtra," she said.

She also shared the video allegedly showing the victim's body bloodied from the attack.

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