A betel shop owner at the Humma railway station under the Rambha police station in Ganjam district, 37 km from here, was shot dead by two unidentified bike-borne miscreants on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Prasad Kumar Behera (28) of Khajuriapalli village under the Rambha police limits in the district. On Monday morning, the two miscreants came to Behera’s betel shop and asked for two cigarettes.
While Behera was handing over the cigarettes, the miscreants started firing at him. When Behera lost consciousness and fell down from the shop, the miscreants fled from the spot.
Behera was rushed to the Chhatrapur sub-divisional hospital, but on the way he died. The police sent the body for postmortem. According to the police, the firing incident occurred due to previous enmity.
The police found a khoka from the spot and investigating into the matter. “We will arrest the culprits very soon,” said Rambha police station IIC Rashmi Ranjan Pradhan.