At least nine people, including six policemen, were injured in a clash on Saturday as violence flared over a planned steel plant of South Korea's POSCO in eastern India, Reuters reported. The clash between police and villagers protesting the planned 12 million-tonne-capacity steel plant by the world's No. 4 steelmaker took place in Jagatsinghpur district in Orissa state. Hundreds of villagers refused to vacate a road they had blocked since January, preventing access to the site to company and government officials. "Police fired rubber bullets and teargas after they (protesters) pelted stones and hurled crude bombs," Arun Sarangi, inspector general of police, said. The police were trying to evict protesters from the site when the clash erupted, he said. -- SPA
