Balangir: A total of 49 bonded labourers, including 16 women and 19 children, have been rescued from two separate places in Balangir district.
Police rescued 27 labourers at Beherensilet village in Kantabanji. They were being taken to Hyderabad. Other 22 were rescued from Belpada in Patnagarh.
Two labour sardars (middlemen) have been detained for interrogation. The rescued persons belong to Tureikela, Belpada, and Patnagarh.
