Nine blasts in Bodh Gaya, 2 injured
Note: Bodh Gaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous for being the place where Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained Enlightenment (Bodhimandala).
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Nine serial explosions rocked the internationally renowned temple town of Bodh Gaya, including four in the Mahabodhi Temple complex, injuring two monks in the blasts suspected to be engineered by some terrorist organisation.
The Mahabodhi Temple is frequented by Buddhist pilgrims from Sri Lanka, China and Japan and the whole of southeast Asia.
While four blasts took place this morning inside the Mahabodhi Temple complex, three occurred in Karmapa monastery, one each near near the 80-ft Buddha statue and at the bus stand near bypass, DIG Magadh range Nayyer Hussnain Khan told PTI.
The blasts took place between 5:30 to 5:58 AM, he said.
Arvind Singh, a member of Mahabodhi Temple Management Commitee said the two injured included a national of Myanmar and another of Tibet. They have been admitted to Magadh Medical College and Hospital, he said.
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Live: MHA confirms Mahabodhi temple blasts a terror attack, 5 injured
Bodh Gaya: 9:49 AM: Ministry of Home Affair has confirmed that the blasts at Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya is a terror attack.
9:25 AM: "We condemn the incident. When there was intelligent input then things should be taken seriously. Stringent action should be taken. This is a security lapse. If there was intelligence reports then why no action was taken by state government," Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
9:14 AM: Gaya Superintendent of Police (SP) says that two live bombs have been recovered from the blast site.
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