Three employees of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) were on Wednesday kidnapped by suspected ULFA(I) militants from its Lakwa oilfield in Sivasagar district along the Assam-Nagaland border.

The PSU, in a statement, said that the three employees had been kidnapped by armed miscreants in the early hours of Wednesday from a rig site of ONGC in Lakwa field of Sivasagar.

The three employees have been identified as MM Gogoi and Ritul Saikia – both junior technicians (production) – and Alakesh Saikia, a junior engineering assistant, an ONGC spokesperson told PTI.