Workers under the banner of the CITU while demonstrating for their eight months’ arrear wages and other benefits faced bullets by private security personnel at Koira in Sundargarh district on Thursday.
According to sources, the workers were agitating in front of the office of the Odisha Manganese & Minerals (OMM). As tension erupted on the spot, the security personnel of the company opened fire at the workers leaving four of them, Rahi Munda, Mansi Munda, Babula Barik and lokanath Das, injured. Babula is seriously injured as a bullet hit his head. The seriously injured persons were shifted to Rourkela for better treatment.
After the incident, the CITU gave a call for a 12-hour Koira Bandh on Friday. The labour leaders demanded arrest of the company’s director, manager and security in-charge immediately.