Two Home Guards officiating at the Gopalpur police station in Ganjam district were critically injured when four unidentified miscreants attacked them with iron rods on Sunday evening.
The Home Guards, identified as Bala Krushna Sahu and Niranjan Biswal, were on duty at the Pathara bypass road near Gopalpur junction in the evening. Four persons came and started talking with each other near the bypass. Suspecting their activities, when the Home Guards went towards them and started interrogating them, the culprits attacked the Home Guards and fled away.
later, some local people rushed the Home Guards to the MKCG Medical College Hospital. Search is on to nab the culprits, said Gopalpur PS IIC Pragyan Paramita Jena.