Four residents of Noliasahi sustained multiple injuries, one of them seriously, in a clash between two rival groups of villagers at the proposed Posco project site over digging of a trench for a boundary wall along the village border.
The seriously injured Damodar Behera was shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack in a critical condition.
As per reports, while a group of villagers of Nuagaoan along with some company officials led by pro-Posco activist Jiban lal Behera tried to dig the trench along the Noliasahi village border, the villagers opposed it. After a heated argument, the Nuagaoan villagers attacked their neighbouring villagers, resulting in injuries to four persons. Injured persons Fakir Behera, Damodar Behera, lili Behera and Sumant Behera were admitted at the nearest hospital. Damodar was shifted to the SCB as his condition deteriorated.