Kolkata, Nov 21 (TIWN) A Trinamool Congress youth leader was shot dead by some miscreants at Canning in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas on Saturday night.

The deceased identified as Maharam Sk - a TMC leader of Nikarihat Gram Panchayat was rushed to SSKM after he was shot from a close range. Sk died at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.

The incident happened when Sk was walking down from his party office at Nikarihat, some unknown miscreants came in an auto and stopped beside him and pumped two bullets on his chest from a close range.

Sk immediately fell on the ground and the miscreants fled with their auto. According to the police, quoting the eye-witnesses -- there were three in number and they have been identified. Police are looking for the trio and are hopeful that they will be arrested soon.