On Saturday midnight a Kolkata-bound truck holding registration number OR-15 S-8813 coming from Sambalpur was hijacked by a gang of 7-8 highway robbers at Baladiabandha of Dhenkanal who killed its helper and left the driver in serious condition by slitting his throat.
According to police sources, the truck was carrying aluminums cuts worth over Rs 8 lakh. The miscreants came by a Mahindra Scorpio jeep and waylaid the truck at Baladiabandha.
When the truck stopped the miscreants got on to the crew cabin and attacked both the driver and the helper and dragged them out. Then they took them in the Scorpio jeep towards Betakholi cashew jungle where they killed helper Arakhi Mahakhud of Bugupiga of Attabira by strangulating him in a plastic wire and injured driver Sishupal Gue by cutting his neck. luckily driver Gue was rescued and disclosed the matter before the police. He was rushed to the SCB Medical in Cuttack.
Meanwhile, police have seized the hijacked truck from the farm house of one Pilu Panda at Krushnapur under Khuntuni Police Station limits and are interrogating Pilu over the matter.