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Mamata Questions ‘Selective Killings’; Terror Attack Victims’ Bodies Arrive Home

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April 24, 2025

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday, questioned the selective killings by terrorists in Kashmir's Pahalgam.

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“I just cannot imagine so many people being killed selectively. We could even see and hear. Enough army personnel were deployed in Pahalgam. It was a sensitive point near the International Border (IB),” the Chief Minister told media persons after coming out of a city-based private hospital in Kolkata where Governor C.V. Ananda Bose is admitted currently.

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