{"id":193229,"date":"2026-01-24T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=193229"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:42:23","slug":"bengal-migrant-killed-in-andhra-pradesh-another-found-dead-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/01\/24\/bengal-migrant-killed-in-andhra-pradesh-another-found-dead-in-chennai.html","title":{"rendered":"Bengal migrant killed in Andhra Pradesh; another found dead in Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-193230\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/25-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amaravati: Two Muslim migrant workers from West Bengal have been found dead in separate incidents, with both families saying that they were killed as part of the growing violence against Bengali-speaking workers in India.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Manjur Alam Laskar, 32, from Usthi, a place in South 24-Parganas, was beaten to death by right-wing Hindutva goons in Komarolu, a village in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. The body of another migrant labourer from Harishchandrapur in Malda district, 29-year-old Alamgir Mondal, 29 was found near railway tracks in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Alam Laskar had been working in Andhra Pradesh for nearly a decade. On Tuesday, his family received a call demanding Rs 25,000, with a threat that he would be killed if the money was not paid. The family transferred Rs 6,000.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, the caller informed them that Alam was dead, Indian media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Alam\u2019s elder brother, Giyasuddin Laskar, the local panchayat vice-president, said that he was targeted on suspicion of being Bangladeshi because he was a Bengali-speaking Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said Alamgir Alam had left for Chennai about a month ago, leaving behind his wife and two children. Eight days ago, he reportedly secured another job in Hyderabad. He last spoke to his wife on January 14 before boarding a train, after which he went missing. On Wednesday, his body was found near a railway track close to a station in Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>His family suspects that he was killed and his body was later dumped beside the track.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month A 35-year-old Muslim man was lynched in Odisha\u2019s Balasore district after he was assaulted by a group of men who objected to the transportation of cattle. KMS\u201410A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amaravati: Two Muslim migrant workers from West Bengal have been found dead in separate incidents, with both families saying that they were killed as part of the growing violence against Bengali-speaking workers in India. According to Kashmir Media Service, Manjur Alam Laskar, 32, from Usthi, a place in South 24-Parganas, was beaten to death by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/25-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193233,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193229\/revisions\/193233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}