India, Oct. 15 -- Several people were injured in Assam on Wednesday when a mob gathered outside the Baksa district jail and threw stones at a convoy bringing the five men arrested in connection with the death of cultural icon Zubeen Garg to the newly constructed prison complex 100km from Guwahati, police said on Wednesday.

Police said warning shots were fired in the air to disperse the mob running into several hundreds, and prohibitory orders were imposed in the district's Mushalpur town and around the jail. Mobile internet has also been snapped across the Baksa district to help control the situation.

"We had to resort to force to control the situation, and now (at 6pm) it has returned to normal in the areas in and around the district j...