Five forest personnel sustain injuries; vehicle of the squad was also vandalised.
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BARIPADA: Armed poachers launched an audacious attack on forest staff leaving five of them injured in Dengam section of Baripada forest division’s Udala range on Tuesday night. The hunters were not finished as they tied the staff, assaulted them and decamped with their mobile phones. They also vandalised the forest officials’ vehicle.
A forest protection squad, led by range officer Arun Behera, raided Jamudihi village and seized 40 kg elk meat and two country-made guns from a poacher’s house. The team was returning to Udala range office with the seized items when a group of around 20 poachers forced stop their vehicle by blocking the road with a large wooden log. They vandalised the vehicle and snatched around 30 kg seized elk meat and a gun from the squad.