Odisha village tense after woman found beheaded: Adivasi mob torches 150 homes of Bangladeshi settlers; internet snapped, forces deployed

KORAPUT/BHUBANESWAR: An armed Adivasi mob torched an entire village of Bangladesh-origin settlers in Odisha’s Malkangiri and assaulted the residents early on Monday over a missing woman from their community being found beheaded. The administration has issued prohibitory orders and suspended internet services for 24 hours from 6pm as additional forces fanned out into the district to pre-empt a potential backlash. Officials said the mob burned down around 150 houses on suspicion that some residents of the MV-26 settlement murdered Lake Padiami (51), a resident of the nearby Rakhalguda village, over a land dispute. Her decapitated body had been found on the banks of the Dudametta river on Dec 4, a day after she was reported missing. SP Vinod Patil announced that two murder suspec