Updated On: 28 December, 2022 11:15 AM IST | Howrah | PTI
Kumar stopped near Mahishrekha in Bagnan police station area to relieve himself. Soon, a gang of three men attacked him, trying to rob his belongings. When the woman rushed to rescue the husband, they shot her and fled the spot immediately, police said.

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A woman from Jharkhand was shot dead after she thwarted a highway robbery attempt in West Bengal's Howrah district in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.
Rita Kumari along with her husband Prakash Kumar and their two-year-old daughter were heading to Kolkata via the National Highway 16 by car, they said.