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Bhubaneswar, Aug 28 (IANS) Communal violence spread in Orissa Thursday with fresh incidents of mobs burning churches and homes, adding to the tensions in the state that has seen at least 11 people being killed in revenge for the murder of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader last week.

The situation was so volatile that Minister of State for Home Sri Prakash Jaiswal and other Congress leaders, who arrived here to visit riot hit areas, were told by the state government that they could not do so and returned to New Delhi.

Though the volatile Kandhamal district continued to be the worst…