Unidentified miscreants looted Rs 10 lakh and gold ornaments from a house after spraying chloroform on two women at Girang village under the Nalco police station in Angul district on Wednesday night.
As many as four looters wearing masks entered the house of a Nalco employee Vikram Sahu, by breaking the window. The incident took place when Sahu was not present in the house while his two sisters were sleeping in it.
They looted the cash and the 800 gram gold ornaments from an almirah.
Hearing the movements of the miscreants, the two women woke up while one of them tried to nab the looters.The miscreants fled from the spot by spraying chloroform by which the women become unconscious.
A complaint in this connection was lodged with the Nalco police while efforts were on by cops to identify and apprehend the accused.