The administration on Monday suspended Internet services in Odisha’s Malkangiri district and clamped prohibitory orders in two villages following a clash between two groups over the killing of a tribal woman whose headless body was recovered from a river, police said.

Both sides wrote to the district administration demanding the arrest of the killer, while the police said security has been tightened in the area and the situation is now under control.

The opposition raised the issue in the Assembly, accusing the BJP government of failing to prevent the clash on Sunday, though tension prevailed in the area following the recovery of the torso of 51-year-old Lake Padiami, a widow, from a riverbank near Rakhelguda village on December 4.

The clash took place on Sunday afternoon when tribals o

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