In a bizarre incident, unidentified miscreants set ablaze medicines worth lakhs of rupees in a village graveyard in Chandura hamlet under Taradapada Panchayat six km away from here on Tuesday night.
Eye witnesses revealed that a tractor carrying some goods had reached at the village graveyard on Tuesday late night and then unloaded the consignment there after a few minutes. Later, fire broke out there. When villagers rushed to the spot, they found that medicines, saline bottles, liquid jerricans and drugs substances were burning.
The villagers doused the fire and reported police about the incident.
Meanwhile, the police have started an investigation. The persons behind the incident were yet to be traced. Additional district medical officer Dr Ajaya Kumar Swain maintained ignorance about the matter.