Journalist killed in IED blast in Kalahandi district
The Hindu
It was planted near LWE poster asking people to boycott rural polls
A journalist died in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast when he approached a poster put up by suspected CPI (Maoist) asking people to boycott elections to the three-tier Panchayati Raj institutions in Odisha’s Kalahandi district on Saturday.
The incident took place around noon when Rohit Biswal (43), a journalist of an Odia daily, visited Damba Karlakhunta area where the posters had appeared.
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