The police said there was an exchange of fire between BUPC and CPI-M activists at Nandigram and Khejuri areas today - a day after Trinamool Congress (TC) chief Mamata Banerjee alleged that her convoy was fired at from the direction of the CPI-M office at Sherkhan Chowk.
Normal life at Khejuri was affected due to the 12-hour bandh called by CPI-M during the day to protest the death of three activists in a bomb blast yesterday and against Banerjee's alleged bid to create law and order problem there.
There was, however, not much impact of the bandh in the three blocks of Nandigram, a stronghold of the TC-backed BUPC.
Nandigram has witnessed renewed violence since Saturday, which has claimed four lives. Three CPI-M activists died in bomb blasts at a relief camp run by the party at Sherkhan Chowk in Khejuri area on Saturday night. The party claimed that they had died due to blasts after bombs were hurled by the BUPC.
BUPC has, on the other hand, claimed that the three had died while making crude bombs.
Another person was killed in an exchange of fire by the two sides at Satengabari village on the border between Khejuri and Nandigram earlier that day.
