Malkangiri (Odisha), Dec 10 (PTI) Normalcy limped back to a violence-hit village in Odisha’s Malkangiri district as around 300 residents who had fled a large-scale attack on December 7 returned home on Wednesday, officials said.

However, the authorities extended the suspension of internet services in the entire district for another 24 hours till Thursday noon.

The violence erupted after the headless body of 51-year-old Lake Podiami, a tribal woman from Rakhelguda, was recovered from the Poteru riverbank on December 4. She had been missing since December 1.

Enraged over the killing, local tribal residents vandalised nearly 200 houses in the Bengali settlement and set several hosues on fire, forcing a large number of residents to flee, the police said.

While the woman’s body was laid to

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