Berhampur: Acting on a tip-off, police recovered 10 country-made guns from two places in the forest areas of Kandhamal district on Sunday, taking the number of seized arms to 12 in the last three days. While seven country-made firearms have been seized from Ladargaon forest area under Tumudibandha police station limits, three were recovered from Partamaha jungle in Daringbadi, said Shubham Bhosale, Baliguda subdivisional police officer (SDPO) on Monday. No one was arrested in this connection.Police said miscreants might have concealed the firearms in the jungle for the purpose of illegal hunting and other unlawful activities. “We have initiated legal actions and trying to find out the people involved in it,” said the SDPO, adding patrolling was intensified in the forest areas after a 33-year-old man was shot dead by two miscreants in a forest under Belaghar police station limits on Friday. Three armed people had gone to the forest for hunting, but two of them killed Kamdeb Majhi of Takala over previous enmity.Accused identified as Litu Majhi (20) and Madhusudan Majhi (35) of Saperu village were arrested with two country-made guns on Sunday, police said.
