INDIA - Indian temple city hit by blasts

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Tuesday, 7 March 2006,

16:40 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indian

temple city hit by blasts

 

 

 

 

 

 

At least 12 people have been killed after two explosions in the

northern Indian pilgrimage city of Varanasi.

Senior superintendent of police Paresh Pandey told the BBC Hindi

service that at least 30 others had been injured.

The first explosion occurred at a Hindu temple and was followed

by at least another blast at a railway station. Police were trying to defuse

a third.

Varanasi - in the northern state of Uttar

Pradesh - is a major pilgrimage centre in India.

The city, about 670 km (415 miles) south-east of the capital Delhi, attracts

large numbers of Indians as well as foreign tourists.

Pandemonium

The first explosion took place in the major temple in the city,

the Sankot Mochan temple dedicated to the Hindu God Hanuman.

Several people were killed and 22

injured in the blast, officials in the Uttar Pradesh state said.

An eyewitness, Siddharth Suri, told the BBC that thousands of

people were at the temple at the time of the blast.

Tuesday is a special day at the Sankat Mochan temple and the

explosion took place just minutes before the main worship.

" There was a loud explosion followed by dust. There was

pandemonium in the front of the temple, " Mr Suri said.

At about 1815 local time (1245 GMT) the complex would

have been packed with worshippers and the fear is the explosion was timed to

have maximum impact, the BBC's Nadvip Dhariwal in Delhi reports.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

" The explosion at the temple is

horrific and shocking to me, " high priest of the temple Veer Bhadra Mishra

told the BBC news website.

" The Sankat Mochan temple is loved, respected and revered

by so many people as a place of religious worship and ritual. I am so

pained, " the priest said.

A spokesman at the Heritage hospital close to the site of the

temple said 10 people brought to the hospital were in a " critical

condition " .

He said they were suffering from splinter and burn injuries.

A second bomb went off at the main railway station just minutes

after the first blast, with eyewitnesses saying they saw a number of

casualties.

High alert

Police said a team of experts were trying to defuse a third bomb

on one bank of the River Ganges.

Shops in the city shut down after the explosions and police are

trying to secure the site.

" Stern action will be initiated against all those found

involved in the incident, " Uttar Pradesh's Chief

Minister Mulyaam Singh Yadav said in a statement.

Major cities across India, including the

capital Delhi, were put on high alert, following the

explosions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SAMVA [sAMVA ] On Behalf Of siha

terça-feira, 7 de Março de 2006 16:50

 

Cc: SAMVA ; satva

Fw: Bird flu confirmed in India (Maharashtra)

 

 

Hello List members,

 

This evening three bomb blasts took  place in Varanasi

in which quite a few

number of people have died.

 

Best wishes,

 

 

 

 

-

<siha

<SAMVA >

Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:51 PM

Re: Bird flu confirmed in India

(Maharashtra)

 

 

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