Two killed in clashes outside Vedanta’s refinery

Bhubaneswar, March 18 

A protester and a cop died in clashes outside Vedanta Ltd’s eastern Indian alumina refinery, less than a year after the police killed 13 anti-Vedanta protesters in Tamil Nadu. 

The incident in Odisha happened 10 months after police opened fire on demonstrators protesting against Vedanta’s copper smelter.

“One Odisha industrial security force personnel and another from the public have died,” said a police officer. — Reuters