In a broad daylight gruesome murder, a sexagenarian died on the spot and his wife and son sustained critical bullet injuries at Babakarpur under Mahakalapada police station after two motorbike-born miscreants fired around 10 rounds of bullets at them.
Locals nabbed the duo miscreants from the spot and handed over to the local police, informed SP Madkar Sandeep Sampat.
The deceased was identified as Arabinda Mishra 62, a retired employee of Kendrapada block, where as the duo injured persons were identified as Minati Mishra,55, (the wife of deceased person) and 30-year-old Subhakesh Mishra alias Kanha (the son of the deceased).
According to locals , two motorbike borne miscreants on Saturday afternoon at about 3.10 pm came to Babakarpur and asked the locals about the house of Kanha. After reaching near the house of Kanha ,the duo miscreants allegedly started abusing Kanha.
When his father, Arabinda Mishra came out of his house, the miscreants allegedly fired three rounds of bullets to the oldman, resulting his death on the spot. Later, when Kanha and his mother came for the rescue of Arabinda, they too fired bullets at them leaving them critically injured.
The locals later nabbed the duo motorbike borne miscreants while they were trying to flee from the spot by terrorizing the locals with revolver and started firing a couple of round bullets to the air.
SP Sampat rushed to the spot to take stock of the situation. As per preliminary information, the duo miscreants have been identified as Kalia Singh of Khordha and Sonu Panda, of Binjharpur.
They were suspected to be supari killers. The reason behind the firing of bullets to the family members is yet to be ascertained .Very shortly police will established the reason behind the broad daylight crime as interrogation is going on with the detainees, said police.