Three persons, including two officers of the Indo Barath Company located at Sahajbahal in Jharsuguda district, were seriously wounded as some miscreants attacked them all of a sudden during a land survey work in Negipalli village on Wednesday.
While two persons have been admitted in the Burla hospital, another is undergoing treatment at a private hospital at Jharsuguda.
Sources said two officers, Rajendra Naik and Ashok Rath, had gone to Negipalli to see a land for the proposed rail line of the company. One Gumbu Khan along with 10 others of Tumbekela village reached the spot and attacked the officers’ car driver Pabitra lenka with iron rods and sticks. Pabitra bled profusely and went unconscious in the attack. When the two officers intervened the miscreants also attacked them.