Overview
- Local residents intercepted a pickup van and a car in the Tarabari area and chased the occupants to Dhimal, where a mob beat them, set the pickup on fire and damaged the car.
- The attack left two men dead and three injured, and one person escaped to the Bagdogra police station; police recovered the vehicles and rushed the wounded to North Bengal Medical College & Hospital.
- Police identified the deceased as Md. Shahid Akhtar of Chopra and Sajjad Mohammad, and have sent both bodies for post-mortem examination.
- Authorities have registered a case that includes murder by mob and other charges and say raids and further probes are under way, with no widely publicized mass arrests reported so far.
- The victims included four men reported from Haryana and one from Uttar Dinajpur, a detail that highlights interstate movement and the wider pattern of vigilantism over cattle-theft suspicions that can inflame local tensions and complicate accountability.