A schoolteacher was brutally attacked by unidentified miscreants at Khusaliganj under the Remuna police station in Baleswar district on Thursday morning.
The seriously-injured Sheikh Gullah Sadiq of the Sunhat area was admitted to a hospital.
According to sources, Sadiq, an Urdu teacher, was going to his Khusaliganj School by his bike when two bike-borne miscreants with masks on their faces attacked him with sharp weapons. He sustained grievous injuries in his hand during the attack, following which the miscreants fled from the spot. Later, locals rescued him and rushed him to the District Headquarters Hospital here.
Later, police reached the spot and began an inquiry into the incident and launched a manhunt to nab the accused.