Eight labourers were injured in a firing incident today at a limestone mine in Sagmania near here, police said. | |
| The labourers, who were protesting the sacking of over 50 mine workers, pelted stones and ransacked the firm's office, they said. |
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| According to Mazdoor Union sources, the cement factory management, with which the mine is associated, has imposed a ban on the recruitment of new labourers employed by the contractor. |
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| The ban led to the dispute between union leader Kanhaiya Singh and the contractor's men. |
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| When the situation went out of control, both the sides opened fire injuring eight labourers, Kulgavan police station incharge Vimal Shrivastava said. |
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| The injured labourers, some of them in serious condition, were admitted in the district hospital here, he said adding two-rounds of empty cartridge shells have been by the police from the mine. |
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| However, situation in the area is tense but under control and additional force has been deployed at the mine and near the factory premises. |
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| Meanwhile, contact could not be established with the factory management. |
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| So far, no arrests have been made in this regard. |
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