: On Firday afternoon miscreants looted Rs 28.60 lakh from a cattle trader in a weekly market in Dabugaon block in Nabarangpur district.
Sources said that at around 1:30 am on Friday, more than 10 robbers wearing black masks robbed a cattle trader of Andhra brandishing swords, rifles, guns and various weapons. The robbers broke the front and window glasses of a Bolero jeep of the cattle trader and took away Rs 28, 60,000 kept in three bags.
Meanwhile, one Mehboob Sharif, a cattle trader of Nabarangpur who was present near the Bolero, protested the robbers but the robbers assaulted his left leg with a sword. The age of most of the robbers will be between 20 years to 25 years, said eyewitnesses.
The victim was identified as Naidu Rangali (33) of Katu Balsa village in Vijayanagar district in Andhra Pradesh, who came to Dabugaon with a Bolero (AP 39 TZ 6477) with lakhs of rupees to buy cattle. Naidu kept the Bolero in one place, locked the windows and got down from the vehicle to purchase the cattle from the weekly market.
Suddenly, the robbers reached there, broke the front and side window glasses of the Bolero jeep and took away the money. Besides, the miscreants punctured the four wheels of the Bolero.
In this regard, cattle trader Rangali lodged a written report in Dabugaon police station.Contacted, Dabugaon IIC Sunil Kumar Pradhan said police had registered a case and an investigation was on.