Police on Friday on a tipoff swooped down on a house at Ambapua under the Gopalpur police station and foiled an attempt to bomb the house of a resident Kora Sethi.
The police arrested two accused and recovered three live crude bombs from their possession.
Police sources said four miscreants Vicky Sethi of Khota Singhi, Tuna Sethi of Bada Gumula , Uma Sathpathy and Pintu Mohanty of Bhanjanagar were planning to bomb the residence of a resident of Ambapua Kora Sethi with whom they had an old enmity.
Notably, a couple of months earlier they had assaulted the son of Kora Sethi.
However, getting information the cops raided the spot and managed to arrest Uma Satpathy and Pintu Mohanty. But Vicky Sethy and Tuna Sethy hurled bombs at the police and fled from the spot.
The four accused have a number of dacoity, snatching and petrol pump robbery cases lodged in different police stations of Ganjam district.