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Massive search on in Orissa for abducted officials

Staff Reporter

BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Orissa police launched a massive combing operation to trace the two officials abducted by Maoists from R Udayagiri town of Gajapati district on Friday, the extremists have sought the release of their associates in various jails in return for freeing the officials.

There was no report on the whereabouts of the two officials till Saturday evening although combing operations continued in the areas surrounding R Udayagiri, a senior police official said. The police have also sought the cooperation of the Andhra Pradesh police in tracing the officials.

During Friday's raid, the naxalites killed three policemen and looted a large cache of arms and ammunition. They also freed 40 prisoners from the local sub-jail and took hostage jailor Rabinarayan Sethi and the officer in charge of the R Udayagiri police station, Ranjan Mallick. Opposition legislators disrupted proceedings in the Assembly demanding that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik step down for not preventing the attack.

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