YANGON (Reuters) - Two Chinese workers have been abducted at a copper mine in Myanmar at the centre of a long-running dispute over land rights and their company said on Monday it was worried they would be harmed unless it stopped work.
Two Chinese contractors and a colleague from Myanmar were abducted on Sunday but the Myanmar national was freed the same day, said Cao Desheng, a spokesman for Myanmar Wanbao, a unit of Chinese weapons manufacturer China North Industries Corp.
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