After poachers kill 3 cops during MP raid, 3 of them shot dead in 24 hours

BHOPAL: Three police personnel were killed after a group of poachers opened fire at them in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district early on Saturday, police officers said, adding that two of the seven accused poachers were killed in separate gunfights.

Police said the shoot-out took place in the Shahrok forest near Aron in Saga Barkheda village in the district at around 3am.

Guna superintendent of police Rajeev Mishra said acting on a tip-off about blackbuck poaching, 3-4 police teams reached the spot around 2.45 am. “One team nabbed three poachers, but four poachers on motorbikes opened fire at the police team,” he said.

While one of the poachers was killed in the cross-firing, another was killed in an encounter late in the evening, the SP said. police team demolished the illegally constructed house of a poacher in Bidoriya village.