Unidentified miscreants looted Rs 2.79 lakh by breaking a bike dickey near Balia Store under Biridi block, 15 km from here, on Friday.
As per sources, two secretaries of a milk cooperative society, Bhaskar Behera of Mahatala village and Narayan Behera of Haladiapada under Biridi block, had withdrawn the money from the UCO Bank, Jagatsinghpur branch and were returning to Biridi keeping the money in their bike dickey.
While on the way, they stopped for purchasing medicine, parking their bike near Balia Store. But when they returned, they saw that the bike dickey had been broken and the money was missing.
The victims informed police. Police rushed to the spot and started investigation, but yet the looters have not been nabbed.