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NEW DELHI (AP) - Three Indian officials working for a South Korean steel company were taken hostage Friday by activists who contend that the company's plan to build a plant in eastern India would displace thousands of people.
The Posco officials had traveled to the village of Gobindapur in the eastern state of Orissa to meet with farmers about acquiring land when they were kidnapped, police said.
Abhay Sahu, the president of an activist group dedicated to fighting the Posco project, told the Press Trust of India news agency the hostages would not be released until the company pledged not to develop the site. But they were released after the villagers received assurances from Posco that they would not enter their village, PTI quoted Sahu as saying.
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