Police on Sunday arrested two more accused involved in the triple murder at Patanaikia Square in the district on July 14. The arrestees were identified as Mitu Behera and Punia Behera.
The two, who had planned and executed the broad daylight murder, were arrested from a jungle near Pipli in the district, said Puri SP Uma Shankar Dash.
With this, the police have so far arrested eight persons in connection with the murder. “Five more accused are still on the run and our team would soon nab them,” Dash said.
Police said the arrested have been identified as relatives of the deceased. An enmity was prevailing between the deceased and accused over land feud.
The murder was fallout of the past enmity.
Three members of a family Purna Chandra Behera, Krushna Behera and Panchua Behera were hacked to death with sharp weapons near Patnaikia Chhak under the Satyabadi police station in the district on July 14.