India, Dec. 8 -- Prohibitory orders were clamped in two villages in Odisha's Malkangiri district following a clash between two groups over the alleged killing of a tribal woman whose headless body had been recovered from a river, police said on Monday.

The development stems from the killing of a 51-year-old tribal woman whose headless body was recovered from a riverbank last week.

Police officials in Malkangiri said the violence unfolded on Sunday evening.

On Sunday, hundreds of tribal men and women of Rakhelguda village, carrying weapons, assembled at MV-26 village and attacked houses.

The group forcibly entered homes, destroyed property, looted shops, and set some houses on fire in MV-26 village. Police said that two persons have be...