Kolkata: Three police personnel, including the officer-in-charge of the Pirakata police outpost were injured when a landmine, suspected to have been planted by the People's War Group (PWG), exploded at the canal road near Birghosa area under West Midnapore district in West Bengal today (November 27).

Deputy inspector general of police (HQ) N C Ghose told reporters in Kolkata that the police party was on regular patrol in the area when the landmine exploded, causing minor injuries to the three. The police jeep was also damaged in the landmine explosion.

He said that the police personnel who noticed some people fleeing in the nearby jungle opened fire, but it was not known immediately whether anyone was killed or injured.

To a question, the DIGP said that PWG ultras might be behind the explosion and added that search was on to nab the extremists.

PTI