State Inspector-General (Law and Order) Prasun Mukherjee told newsmen here that the injured included nine police personnel and the sub-divisional police officer of Arambagh.

He said that the mob ransacked the camp, set ablaze three police jeeps and put up road blocks in the area in protest against the alleged police atrocities in the village. They also abducted the driver of a police jeep, but he was later rescued.

Trinamool Congress spokesman Sudip Bandyopadhyay told reporters that three persons were killed in police firing.

The Additional Superintendent of Police Gyanwant Singh, however, stated that no bodies were traced by the force as yet. Police had fired four rounds to quell the mob besides bursting tear gas shells, Singhsaid.

Condemning the police action, Bandopadhyay, MP, said that Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee, now in Delhi, was informed about the incident. Para-military Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) personnel were deployed while additional reinforcements were rushed to the spot following simmering tension. Thirty-four were arrested so far while massive combing operation was still on in the area.