Bhopal, Sep 16 - A strike was observed Wednesday in Dindori town of Madhya Pradesh where three people were killed in police firing after a mob blocked traffic and pelted stones at police injuring 11 cops, officials said.

The incident occurred Tuesday evening in Parsel village of Dindori district, over 350 km from here, when authorities sought to disperse a mob which was blockading a road demanding that an advocate, Narain Padwar, missing for the past two months, be traced.

'The police had gone to the village to disperse those staging the road blockade but they indulged in stone pelting in which many policemen were injured. The police first took recourse to cane-charge and when this failed to end the road blockade, they fired in the air to disperse the crowd,' Additional Police Superintendent, R.S. Bhadoria said.

'However, when the locals did not relent and turned violent, the police had to open fire in which three people were injured who later died in hospital,' Bhadoria added.