A group of miscreants armed with country-made guns and lethal weapons attacked a railway staff and looted away a bike, a mobile phone and `2,000 from him at the Jharsuguda railway station on Friday night at around 11.30 pm.
According to an FIR lodged by Sunakar Toppo with the GRP, he was
on duty at the station gate when six miscreants came and all of a sudden attacked him and locked him in a room nearby. Then they entered the restroom and damaged furniture and wall clock and threw out official documents. Taking a failing attempt to kill him, they took away a mobile phone and `2,000 from him and a motorcycle of one Pabitra Kisan, who was on patrolling there.
Coming out to the road, they attacked two others, Bhubaneswar Singh and Kandarpa Bhainsa, and brought them to Sunakar and locked them all in the room.
After sometime, the three victims came out of the room with the help of a person staying nearby.
The GRP, after registering a case, have launched a search operation with help of local police.