Orissa, India, Aug 26, 2008 / 04:02 am
A laywoman was killed and a priest seriously injured in eastern India on Monday after suspected Hindu extremists set a Christian-run orphanage on fire.
The attack took place in Khuntapali in the state of Orissa nearly 250 miles west of the state capital Bhubaneshwar. According to the Associated Press, a group of Hindu militants gathered at the orphanage and asked nearly 20 residents to leave the complex.
Then they set the orphanage on fire with a laywoman and a priest locked inside, Ashok Biswal, superintendent of police told the AP.
The laywoman died and the priest was hospitalized with serious burns.