In a gruesome incident, agitated employees of a steel plant on Thursday burnt alive deputy general manager Radheshyam Ray at Titlagarh town.
“Ray had received 90 per cent burn injury. Despite our serious efforts, we could not save his life. He breathed his last at 5.20 pm,” Dr Usharani Das of the Bolangir district headquarters hospital, said.
According to Bolangir district superintendent of police Ajay Sarangi, labour unrest was going on in the plant for the past few days after the company authorities suspended some employees a few days ago.
The SP said two special squads had been formed to apprehend the accused.
“The suspended workers were staging demonstrations for the past few days. Their anger reached the peak when the company officials dismissed some of them on Wednesday. And today, the agitating employees committed the crime by burning alive the DGM,” Mr Sarangi said. “The special squads have been constituted to nab the accused,” SP Mr Sarangi claimed.