A group of suspected contraband smugglers attacked a police patrol and robbed a shotgun at Dharmanagar in Kalaiya Sub-Metropolitan City-1 of Bara on Monday. Four officers were injured.

The smugglers clashed with the security personnel as the latter attempted to seize the goods that were illegally imported from India. Some  more assailants from the village joined in and attacked the security personnel. Tobacco, sugar, gutkha and clothes were being smuggled into the Nepali territory from India when the incident took place.

According to the District Police Office in Bara, four policemen were deployed in bordering Dharmanagar to control smuggling.

Head constables Shekh Masarul and Binod Paswan and constables Chandreshwor Singh and Jagmohan Rawat were injured in the incident.