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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Guns blaze again in Nandigram, 10 hurt </b>
Pioneer.com
Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata
After three months' of uneasy quiet, Nandigram once again erupted to gun battle on Monday night between the CPI(M) cadre and the opposition Bhumi Ucchhed Pratirodh Committee members, leaving 10 people hurt, one of them seriously, in East Midnapore, the district administration confirmed.

The violence started after police arrested 34 CPI(M) supporters from Takapura area on charges of last year's violence following deposition from the Bhumi Ucchhed Pratirodh Committee men, sources said adding the two sides exchanged gunshots and hurled bombs through out the night punching a big hole in the security forces' claims of "optimum sanitation" (off arms).

"The CPI(M) cadres hurled bombs at our men after their men were arrested by their own police" Bhumi Ucchhed Pratirodh Committee leader Abu Taher said.

While nine of the injured were being treated at the Nandigram primary health centre one person was admitted to Tamluk district hospital with serious injuries.

This was the first gun fight after peace returned to the area in December.
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