Blackbuck poachers shoot & injure 7 forest guards in Madhya Pradesh's Guna

BHOPAL: Seven forest guards were injured when poachers shot at them in MP’s Guna district in the wee hours of Thursday after being caught killing blackbuck.

This is the second such incident this month. On May 4, an unarmed forest guard was shot dead by poachers in Gwalior when he stumbled on their blackbuck ambush site.

The Guna shooting happened around 2am when a forest team was sent to intercept a band of poachers. “Our team had information that there were poachers near Raghogarh. A team, led by the SDO, was sent. The poachers shot at them when they were asked to surrender. Some of our people were injured,” said Guna DFO Ramesh Vishvakarma, adding that the poachers have been identified and will be arrested soon.