Jammu, Two persons were arrested on Saturday for attempting bank robbery and setting ablaze a saw mill in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district.

Police said a Jal Shakti department employee, Pushpinder Sharma and one Ankit Sudan were arrested on Saturday in connection with an FIR registered for setting ablaze a saw mill and attempting robbery in a bank branch in Sunderbani town of Rajouri district on Thursday.

"The accused have confessed setting the saw mill ablaze and also an attempt made by them to rob a bank," police said.