Phidim, November 4:

Locals of Ektin VDC in Panchthar today nabbed four persons along with weapons and handed over them to the police.

The arrested have been accused of poaching in nearby forests. The police identified the arrested as Dev Raj Prasad Yadav, Bir Bahadur Prasad Yadav and Bagdat Ram of Motihari, India, and Roshan Pariyar of Ektin-5.

“We seized a handmade gun from the arrested,” the police said