Baragada: Two suspected poachers were arrested from Odisha’s Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary during raids, officials said Thursday.
Acting on specific intelligence, sanctuary officials and the Baragada district police conducted search operations across five villages near the reserve November 10-11 to prevent poaching and illegal hunting of wildlife, they said.
During the raids, the two poachers were arrested, said Anshu Pragyan Das, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of the Hirakud Wildlife Division.
Animal trapping nets, snares and electric hooking wire were seized from their possession, Das said.
The accused were planning leopard poaching and had laid traps in the sanctuary for that purpose, she added.