A 26-year-old youth was shot dead and another person sustained bullet injuries on Friday night at the Barti Sanskrit College road under the Raghunathpur police limits of Jagatsinghpur district as four motorbike-borne miscreants opened fired at them to loot money from them while they were returning from Kendrapada by a mini truck to Jagatisnghpur.
IIC of Raghunathpur police station Krushna Prasad Patnaik said the deceased was Mithun Bhattacharya of Punanga village and the injured was mini truck driver Pradyumna Sahu (56) of Nawabpatana village. Both were working at Jagatsinghpur-based Ml Tyres Distributor. The injured was sent to the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack.
The victims had gone to Kendrapada to deliver a consignment of tyres to shops. They had collected about `85,000 from the tyre shops,