Sundargarh: Five persons, including three women, were killed while four others were injured in a group clash between two nomadic groups over an alleged love affair in Karamdihi area under Odisha’s Sundargarh Sadar police limits on Tuesday night.
According to reports, one nomadic group captured a woman and two children as ransom and fled the area. Soon after the incident, police launched a manhunt for the accused and formed a team comprising the Sadar SDPO, five IICs and four platoons of police force to track down and arrest the killers
The Western DIG and Sundargarh SP visited the Sundargarh District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) where the injured are admitted and conducted an investigation.
Reports said that two groups of nomadic people from the Wardha region of Maharashtra have been camping in the Karamdihi area for the last few months. The first wife of Avinash Pawar, one of the nomadic people, left him to live with a person from the rival nomadic group. After this, Avinash married again and started living with his second wife. He has a son from the first wife and two children from the second wife, who reportedly had a dispute with some locals.
At around 11.00 pm on Tuesday, people from one nomadic group attached another with deadly weapons while everyone was sleeping. Five people, including three women, died in the group clash, while Avinash, ar woman. and two children sustained injuries in the attack.
After the incident, the attackers fled with Avinash’s second wife and two children. On receiving the information, the Sadar police personnel reached the clash site and launched a search operation to arrest the attackers. It is learnt that the police are currently conducting raids in various areas to arrest the attackers.
