The police opened fire when a mob attacked them and snatched away a revolver when they went to arrest two persons at Uladan village in Ganjam district on Monday.
The villagers attacked the police team, including the Inspector-in-Charge of the Tarsingi police station and two Assistant Sub-Inspectors, with knives and sticks injuring four of them, Superintendent of Police Ashish Kumar Singh said.
The policemen then opened fire in self-defence injuring a villager, he said. The mob, thereafter, snatched away a revolver from the policemen and fired at them injuring an ASI, he added.
The revolver was yet to be recovered, Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Bhanjanagar R Ch Sethi said. The villager and the ASI were admitted at the MKCG Medical College Hospital in Brahmapur and the others at the Bhanjanagar hospital, the SP said. Ten persons were arrested while some others fled. The police were deployed in the village where order was restored.