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Balangir: Police on Wednesday rescued 74 migrant Odia labourers including 13 children from Kantabanji railway station in Balangir district.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of the Town Police Station and the Government Railway Police (GRP) rescued the labourers from the railway station.
Kantabanji tehsildar Ashok Kumar Majhi said the labourers including 42 male and 32 female hailing from Belgapada, Bangomunda, Muribahal and Tureikela blocks in the district and Golamunda block in Kalahandi district had taken advance money of Rs 30,000 each to work in a brick kiln in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh.
He said the migrant labourers were scheduled to board a train to Visakhapatnam. But they were rescued by the police.
Efforts are on to send the migrant labourers to their respective villages, he added.
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