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11 workers ‘held captive’

Bhubaneswar, October 14
Eleven persons, hired to construct a wooden bridge in the proposed Posco plant site, were being held captive for the past five days, Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) claimed today.

“We have held 10 workers and a driver, who were engaged by the rural development department for building a wooden bridge near the site for Posco’s proposed steel plant, as captive,” PPSS president Abhaya Sahu told PTI over phone. Though the police had no idea about the exact number of persons detained by the activists, officials said negotiations were on with the captors to get them released. — PTI