Normal life was affected across Orissa on Monday due to the 12-hour bandh call given by saffron outfits, including ruling coalition partner Bharatiya Janata Party, to protest the killing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati.There were reports of stray incidents of violence from communally-sensitive Kandhamal, where the VHP leader and four others were gunned down by a group of armed persons on Saturday.
"As many as seven companies of paramilitary forces were deployed in troubled areas of the district to strengthen security and prevent further flare up," Kandhamal District Collector Krishan Kumar said.
Two persons were hacked to death by unidentified persons in the sensitive Tumudibandha area of Orissa's riot-hit Kandhamal district, official sources said on Friday.District Collector of Kandhamal Krishan Kumar said that the killings took place at Sindhupanka village in the Tumudibandha police station area late on Thursday night.Nobody was arrested and efforts were on to capture the culprits, sources said.
Notwithstanding the shoot-at-sight order imposed in eight blocks of riot-ravaged Kandhamal, violence continued on Thursday in remote areas of the communally sensitive district in a backlash to the killing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Laxmanananda Saraswati.Information about some incidents were received from some remote places of Tikabali, G Udaygiri and other areas while the situation was under control in most areas of Kandhamal, said District Collector Krishan Kumar.
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