10-13-2008, 12:01 AM
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The fire of communal conflict in Kandhamal district has spread to the adjoining Malkangiri district where 12 people from both Hindu and Christian communties were injured, some of them critically, after they clashed on Thursday night.
According to the police, the children belonging to the Telugu Christian community and the Oriya Hindus in Padia village had a fight over gambling on Wednesday.
The matter came to a head when the members of the Christian community attacked some puja pandals leading to clashes between the two communities. Malkangiri SP SK Gajbhiye said the critically injured had been sent to the district headquarters hospital.
A unit of Special Operation Group of Orissa police has been rushed to the spot to contain any further violence.
Though Kandhamal continued to be peaceful on Friday, over 4,000 Kondh tribals belonging to four grampanchayats gheraoed the block office of Tikabali demanding that the murderers of Laxmanananda Saraswati be arrested forthwith. The protestors, most of them women, were asking for a stop to midnight arrests and withdrawal of CRPF from the district.
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The fire of communal conflict in Kandhamal district has spread to the adjoining Malkangiri district where 12 people from both Hindu and Christian communties were injured, some of them critically, after they clashed on Thursday night.
According to the police, the children belonging to the Telugu Christian community and the Oriya Hindus in Padia village had a fight over gambling on Wednesday.
The matter came to a head when the members of the Christian community attacked some puja pandals leading to clashes between the two communities. Malkangiri SP SK Gajbhiye said the critically injured had been sent to the district headquarters hospital.
A unit of Special Operation Group of Orissa police has been rushed to the spot to contain any further violence.
Though Kandhamal continued to be peaceful on Friday, over 4,000 Kondh tribals belonging to four grampanchayats gheraoed the block office of Tikabali demanding that the murderers of Laxmanananda Saraswati be arrested forthwith. The protestors, most of them women, were asking for a stop to midnight arrests and withdrawal of CRPF from the district.
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