Calcutta, March 15: Rash Behari Khara of Sonachura village, Nandigram, is writhing in pain on his SSKM hospital bed. He is hardly able to speak. Even after surgery, the bullet inside his abdomen could not be taken out.

Haimabati Haldar of Nandigram village took a bullet in her abdomen. Her surgery is over and she’s fighting for her life.

They are among the 14 villagers from Nandigram who suffered bullet injuries and were brought from a Tamluk hospital to the city.

“The condition of four patients is critical while others are stable,” said an official at the hospital.

Five of the injured were shifted to SSKM hospital yesterday while nine were brought today — three of them late in the evening. Hospital officials said Khara and Haldar were brought late yesterday and were operated upon between 2 am and 6 am.

“I was hit by a bullet on my right shoulder, which pierced it and went out. Somehow, I managed to hide behind a house but policemen dragged me out and beat me up,” said Swapan Giri of Sonachura, admitted in Woodburn Ward.

Kanchan Mal, a mother of three sons, saw a youth getting hit by a bullet. “I sat beside him and tried to make him drink water when another bullet hit me and I became unconscious,” she said.