The dead, a supporter of the Farmland Resistance Eviction Committee (FERC), who was hit on the head,succumbed to injuries at the hospital while others were admitted with serious gun-shot wounds, reports said. Home secretary Prasad R Roy who confirmed raging clashes at Satengabari and other areas, claimed that the violence was controlled later in the day. The government has not taken any decision on Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s demand for sealing Nandigram's border with Khejuri and the paramilitary forces are yet to arrive in Kolkata for deployment, Mr Roy told newsmen at the state secretariat.

“At least 10 houses were torched in Nandigram on Tuesday; the CPM men had set fire to 17 houses on Monday and 100 on Sunday. The firing from Khejuri and other areas has been continuing unabated,” Abdus Samad, an FERC leader alleged. But his claim was denied by H Das, the CPM's local leader who argued that the FERC men had been attacking the CPM camps since on Monday night.

Ms Banerjee, who expressed serious concern on the deteriorating law and order in Nandigram, urged people to respond to the TMC's call for 12-hour statewide shutdown on Wednesday to exert pressure on the Buddhadev Bhattacherjee government to restore the law and order in Nandigram.

In view of the Supreme Court summons to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and the Union Minister T R Baalu, Ms Banerjee shied away from dubbing Wednesday's shutdown as a bandh.

Meanwhile, the leader of opposition in the state assembly Partha Chatterjee of TMC alleged that an irate mob of CPM supporters had blocked his car at Brindabanchak and fired pellets, one of which had hit his car while he was on visit to the area. Asked to comment on the incident, state Inspector General of Police(law and order) Raj Kanoria said Mr Chatterjee's claim was being verified.

The 12-hour Bengal bandh on Tuesday called by SUCI  went off peacefully.