Nun burnt alive in Bargarh area of Orissa

Bargarh (Orissa), Aug 25: A nun was burnt alive in Bargarh area of Orissa by some unidentified miscreants during the VHP called bandh on Monday, Aug 25. They also set fire to an orphanage. A priest is also hospitalised. Normal life was disrupted across Orissa on Monday, Aug 25 as thousands of people staged demonstrations in several places as part of a statewide shutdown called by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to protest the killing of a leader of the outfit on Saturday, Aug 24.

Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, a member of VHP's central advisory committee, and four other people were killed at his Jalespata ashram, some 340 km from here, Saturday, Aug 23 evening after more than 30 suspected Maoist rebels opened fired on them. The ashram is in Kandhamal district.

Saraswati was leading a campaign against cow slaughter and religious conversion in the communally sensitive Kandhamal district. The district, with a population of around 600,000 including 150,000 Christians, has witnessed numerous clashes between Hindus and Christians in the past.

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