A group of tribals booked for attacking police team from Telangana, says SP

‘The 10-member police team visited Lambasingi to investigate a ganja smuggling case’

The district police have booked cases against the group of tribals who had reportedly attacked the police team from Nalgonda, who had come to investigate a case related to ganja smuggling, near Lambasingi in the Visakhapatnam Agency area.

A 10-member team of Nalgonda police from Telangana, had come to Lambasingi for further investigation in a ganja smuggling case. They were heading to Annavaram village with an accused who was earlier caught in Nalgonda. Near Lambasingi, they were reportedly attacked by a group of tribals armed with axes and other weapons. In self-defence, the police team opened two rounds of fire from their service weapons, in which one tribal received a bullet injury that ricochetted of a surface and another suffered injury trying to escape in the melee.