In a crisis for the Naveen Patnaik government, two Italian citizens were taken hostage by Maoists at an undisclosed location in Odisha's Kandhamal district on Saturday. One of the two abducted men, Boscusco Paolo, has been visiting Odisha since 1999 and runs a travel agency in Puri that takes foreign tourists on tribal tours. The other, Clandio Colangilo, is a tourist. The two were kidnapped from the Kandhmal-Ganjam border in Odisha.
