A Home Guard was seriously injured as some unidentified miscreants hurled a bomb on the Jenapur police station in Jajpur district on Thursday evening.
However, there was no damage to the police station.
Home Guard Prakash Chandra Sahoo (32) was cleaning the garbage in the police station campus when the bomb was exploded. He was soon rushed to the Community Health Centre (CHC) at Dharmasala but later shifted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack as his condition was serious.
Police are investigating the case, said Jajpur SDPO Jugal Kishor Das.