Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Home Department on Tuesday extended the prohibition on use and access of social media platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, X and any other through internet and other medium of data services for another 18 hours up to 12 pm on December 10 in Malkangiri district.

Earlier a 24-hour internet shutdown was imposed from 6 pm on Monday as the district continued to boil as a mob went on a rampage again in MV-26, torching more houses and forcing the inhabitants to flee, over the alleged murder of a tribal woman whose headless body was recovered from a river. ADVERTISEMENT

Prohibitory orders under Section 163 of BNS were also clamped within 10-km radius of the village with Border Security Force (BSF) and armed police personnel deployed to pre-empt a potential backlash.

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