India, May 21 -- A suspected poacher has been killed in Assam's Kaziranga National Park during a cross-firing between the forest guards and a team of armed miscreants on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

The divisional forest officer (DFO), Eastern Assam Wildlife Division (EAWL), Arun Vignesh, told HT that a group of unknown men were noticed in the Agaratoli Range area of the park on Wednesday morning and a search operation was launched immediately.

"The park is closed, and outsiders are not allowed in that part of the park, so we started a search. But when our team found the three unknown men, they started firing. In return, our guards fired and after a few moments, the miscreants fled the area," he said.

Vignesh said that the fore...