Kandhmal tense after VHP leader's murder

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Orissa's volatile Kandhamal district has now turned into a virtual tinder box with saffron groups carrying out retaliatory attacks after the murder of VHP leader Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati. On Monday, mobs defied curfew attacking churches and even setting an orphanage in neighbouring Bargarh district on fire killing a woman worker and injuring a priest.

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