At least six persons including two cops were injured seriously and one died when a knife-wielding bike lifter attacked on them under Sector 4 police station in Bokaro last night.
The deceased was identified as Pitamber Sah, a resident of Sector 6 while injured were identified as Chandan Kumar (JAP), Upender Kumar (Home Guard), Sanjeev Kumar, Shiv Shankar and Manoj Kumar were severely injured and rushed to Bokaro General Hospital where their conditions are stable, police said.
According to the eyewitness about 11.15 PM a bike lifter trying to lift a locked bike which was parked at outside Budha Vihar where a marriage function was going on.
Suddenly Pitamber saw him and resisted, he tried to stop the thief but thief attacked with knife on him. later four other people also tried to caught the thief be they also got injured, said Raju an eyewitness.
The thief escaped after rampantly attacking on mass; two cops also tried to catch the thief even one of them fired but thief got success in escaping, said another eyewitness. “We conducting search, thief will caught soon,” said OC of the local police station.