Blasts In Hindu Temples in India

03-07-2006, 07:37 PM

Twin blasts rock Varanasi, many feared killed

VARANASI: Blasts rocked the Varanasi railway station and the city's Sankatmochan temple complex on Tuesday evening.

At least four people were killed and several others injured.

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03-07-2006, 08:36 PM

http://www.ndtv.com/breakingnews/default.a...o=37200682146PM
(its not triple blasts but double blasts. ndtv corrected their mistake on tv)

At least 12 people have been killed after triple blasts rocked parts of Varanasi on Tuesday evening.

Several others have been injured in the blasts, which took place between 6:15-6:30 pm (IST).

The Home Ministry has confirmed the blasts occurred at Sankat Mochan Temple and the railway station in the cantonment area. The third blast reportedly took place on the Shiv Ganga Express.

Area cordoned off

The injured have been taken to the SS Hospital in the Benaras Hindu University campus.

Senior officials of the district administration have reached the spot and the affected areas have been cordoned off.

The Mulayam Singh Yadav government has announced a compensation of Rs five lakh for the dead and Rs one lakh for those who have been seriously injured.

Another bomb was also recovered from the Gadolia market in the city.

"Some sick mind must have done it. All communities must come together in this time of terrible tragedy," said Salman Khursheed, President, UPCC.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condemned the blasts and appealed for calm.

A high level meeting of Home Ministry officials is currently underway and Home Minister Shivraj Patil is expected to visit Varanasi. A high alert has been sounded in Delhi and Mumbai.

Some sick mind must have done it. All communities must come together in this time of terrible tragedy. - Salman Khursheed, President, UPCC (LOOK WHO'S TALKING)

People must maintain peace, government is dealing with the situation - Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister (AS ASKED TO PARROT BY SONIA)

LETS WAIT AND SEE WHAT BJP AND RSS HAVE TO SAY.

03-07-2006, 08:42 PM

SOME SANE FEEDBACKS FROM THE NDTV SITE-

How many more innocent poor civilians from the majority community needs to die before we stop this constant appeasement and pseudo-secularism
Posted by Samit on 3/7/2006 8:02:46 PM

Just eleminate muslim from india. Make india a hindu Nation.
Posted by Santosh dubey

if you want peace in India, throw these muslims out of country
Posted by Rakesh

Minority appeasement is the root of all cowardly blasts.
Posted by Deshbhakth

MEANWHILE CHECK THIS ANSWER OUT - ANOTHER SALMAN KHUSBOO IN THE MAKING.

Keeping the ground level situations in UP in mind any criminal group or opportunist parties may have done it to divide the civil society for political aims. Actually the enemy must be within us, among us. We need to identify them and punish them...

Posted by Syed

03-07-2006, 08:44 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4782618.stm

'Blasts' rock Indian temple town
Scene after the blast
There was pandemonium after the blasts
At least five people have been killed after twin explosions in the northern Indian pilgrimage town of Varanasi.

Senior Superintendent of Police Paresh Pandey told the BBC Hindi service that at least 30 others had been injured.

The first blast took place at a Hindu temple. A second took place at the railway station. Police said they were trying to defuse a third bomb.

Varanasi, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, is a major pilgrimage centre in India.

It attracts large numbers of Indians as well as foreign tourists.

Pandemonium

The first explosion took place in a major temple in the city, the Sankot Mochan temple dedicated to the Hindu God Hanuman.

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.

A spokesman at the Heritage hospital close to the site of the temple says five of some 10 people brought to the hospital are in a "critical condition".

He said they were suffering from splinter and burn injuries.

The BBC's Ram Dutt Tripathi, who is Varanasi, says shops in the city shut down after the explosions and police are trying to secure the site.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condemned the blasts and appealed for calm, a spokesman from his office said.

03-07-2006, 09:06 PM

What else can be expected from the followers of death cult.

With highly degraded politicians and shudras ruling everywhere from Kashmir to Tamil Nadu, ordinary dharmic people will suffer more and more.

So much for a nuke power terrorised by criminals and asuric community.

So long Devas will keep on sleeping, dharmic people will get slaughtered from Somnath temple to Raghunath Temple to Akshardham to SankatMochan.

I am sure another commie babu or congresi neta will come up with a fantastic story which will put even bollywood and hollywood to shame .....for example.....

..a Kapur baati exploded while doing aarti of Hanumanji
..defective agarbattis exploded
..handiwork of some disgruntled panditji from the temple itself
..group of monkeys dropped fire crackers on many gas cylinders simultaneously because they were refused prasadam.

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03-07-2006, 09:15 PM

already one muslim leader (with a mush and no beard).. i dont know the name, went on air with his own version of how this wasnt an attack on hinduism but on india as a whole (done by pakistan ofcourse, not home grown patriotic muslims).

i really wish the bjp comes back to power. one of the first things they should do, is not leave important places like varanasi and ayodhya to the hands of the p-sec or marxist or yadav state governments but under direct control of the centre for ever (irrespective of who comes to power).

secondly there should not be muslims living close to top hindu sites and shrines. they should totally deislamise places like varanasi and shrines like pushkar for at least a 50 km radius. the main reason why we have such attacks is because the potential suicide bombers live so close to the potentian targets.

03-07-2006, 09:27 PM

oh yeah, that was siddiqqi of the samajwadi party... narrating how the attack was not on hinduism at all but on india.

interestingly uma bharati also said as much !!!

Sunder · 03-07-2006, 09:31 PM

I have noticed that Hindus take one of the following two modes when a terrorist act happens that kills their own blood.

1) They rant uselessly and go into a self pity blaming OTHER hindus of being inactive. or....
2) Go into a sarcastic mode and try to cover up the anger with humour.

In either case, there is no action (corrective or otherwise) that comes out of it. The episode stands as another day to remember till the next incident occurs.

Sometimes I think it is not worth commenting on such incidents for in reality it is not going to make any difference. But this one, I had to take an exception.

This is an outrageous incident. But it will be forgotten.

03-07-2006, 09:41 PM

it wont be forgotten as long as hindus in the right mind and entities like the RSS are around.

what u.p. needs is a chief minister like modi.

03-07-2006, 09:45 PM

Terror strikes Varanasi; 12 killed in serial blasts
QUOTEThe first blast took place inside famous Sankatmochan temple adjacent to Kashi Vishwanath temple when it was teeming with devotees at the evening "aarti" time killing four persons on the spot.

Minutes later, another blast took place at the holding area of platform number one of the Varanasi Cantonment railway station when Delhi-bound Shivaganga Express was stationary.

The temple has been closed and all entry and exit points of Varanasi have been sealed.

Bombs have been recovered from the Godaulia market area of the city too.The injured have been rushed to the SS Hospital of Benaras Hindu University

03-07-2006, 09:46 PM

Spineless/Shameless condemns Varanasi blasts, appeals for calm
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Bhootnath · 03-07-2006, 09:49 PM

Now lets see the reaction of Secular people who hold Docterate in Islam via reading Patai!

You know what I mean ?

May Gods/God give FITTING reply to these Secular ppl by letting them see their own loved ones being blown up by their OWN "Indians"...

All that if Gods/God exist.

Amen!

03-07-2006, 09:50 PM

QUOTEThe importance of Varanasi
HindustanTimes.com
New Delhi, March 7, 2006
Varanasi (also known as Benares, Banaras, Benaras, Kashi, and Kasi) is a Hindu holy city on the banks of the river Ganga (Ganges) in Uttar Pradesh.

Varanasi is to Hindus what Mecca is to Muslims and Vatican to Catholic Christians. Varanasi has a unique culture, quite different from other places in the region.

This culture has developed through thousands of years during which it has been one of the major cultural centres of northern India. The whole Varanasi culture revolves around the river Ganga, which is the heart and soul of the city.

Varanasi has its own 'Gharanas' (style of music) in classical Indian music. Varanasi has produced some of the most well-known musicians, philosophers, poets, writers in Indian history. To name a few, Kabir, Munshi Premchand,Jaishankar Prasad, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Bismillah Khan were/are from Varanasi.

It even has its own dialect, which is quite different from other dialects of the region. It has been a seat of knowledge from about 700 BC onwards. Its universities attracted students from all over the then-known world. Varanasi is also known as the Cultural Capital of India.

Mark Twain said, "Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together!".

03-07-2006, 09:50 PM

whas patai?

03-07-2006, 09:53 PM

er.. Mudy... if i know right, then kanauj (kanpur) was a far more important centre of learning and culture than varanasi.

varanasi was always imortant spiritually and religiously.

03-07-2006, 09:54 PM

India On Alert As Blasts Hit Holy CityQUOTEThey came days after Muslims and Hindus battled each other in the nearby city of Lucknow.

Hindus also looted Muslim shops and burned vehicles in the coastal resort of Goa
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The explosion at the packed Sankat Mochan temple happened at dusk, a time when devout Hindus make a nightly offering to the monkey-god Hanuman.

Local television said none of the temple's idols was damaged.

Media at its best

03-07-2006, 09:56 PM

Eyewitness: Varanasi temple blast

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4783126.stm

Many people have been killed after explosions in the Indian pilgrimage town of Varanasi.

The BBC News website spoke to Francesca Marino who was close to the temple at the time of the explosion and witnessed the ensuing chaos.

Suddenly people started to run, streaming past me away from the temple. People were screaming, saying that there had been a big bomb blast.

Initially, we heard that only a couple of children had been injured. But now they are saying that people have died.

It was terrible.

It's Tuesday, a holy day, and the area was packed with people going to pray at the temples. Everything is surrounded with noise, shops, lights and high-volume music.

There was such chaos anyway, it was difficult to know what exactly was happening.

'Communal tension'

I was at the Durga temple and chatting to a shopkeeper when more crowds came and advised that shops close down. It seemed like people wanted to go and throw stones in protest. This is not the first time this has happened here.

The mosque is close to the Golden Temple here and there is a lot of communal tension. There have been riots between Hindus and Muslims in the past.

That was how the situation seemed to be unfolding but now everything is quiet. The shops are still closed and people are going home.

It has been a sad day.

Bhootnath · 03-07-2006, 09:56 PM

QUOTE(Sunder @ Mar 7 2006, 10:31 PM)I have noticed that Hindus take one of the following two modes when a terrorist act happens that kills their own blood.

1) They rant uselessly and go into a self pity blaming OTHER hindus of being inactive. or....

>>>> I think you meant "OTHER SECULAR HINDU" , which is quite valid. Dont you think so ?

2) Go into a sarcastic mode and try to cover up the anger with humour.

>>>> You must be talking abt some other forum, I am sure ...

In either case, there is no action (corrective or otherwise) that comes out of it. The episode stands as another day to remember till the next incident occurs.

>>>> Discussion forums/ BBoards have their limits as well as roles. Do you disagree.

Sometimes I think it is not worth commenting on such incidents for in reality it is not going to make any difference. But this one, I had to take an exception.

>>>> Now are you indulging in point no. 1 ?

This is an outrageous incident. But it will be forgotten.

>>>> Well , those who forget , let them suffer similar deaths.
>>>> PPL in J&K are example for that and then other side of ppl were from Punjab ....

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03-07-2006, 09:58 PM

Six dead, more than 60 hurt in India blasts QUOTEPolice also found two primed bombs near Varanasi's main cremation site on the banks of the Ganges river, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings.

Police said the first bomb went off in the city's Hanuman Temple, which was teeming with devotees who visit the complex every Tuesday to worship the god of strength for which the shrine is named.

"It was a powerful bomb," Varanasi police chief Navneet Sikera told AFP.

Kamlesh Pathak, the city's deputy administrator, said six people were killed and 22 injured in the temple blast, which sparked a near-stampede as hundreds of devotees scrambled to safety.
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The blast was so powerful that it could be heard across the town and we have moved five or six badly-burned dead," an eyewitness said.

"Everyone was running. There were corpses lying around," another witness told Aaj Tak news channel. "There was almost a stampede."

Within 10 minutes of the temple blast, Pathak said, another bomb went off in the station master's office in the city's main railway station, injuring 40 people.

"Forty (people) were injured ... and 22 of them are in serious condition," he told AFP.

An official said police also found two bombs near Varanasi's main cremation site, and that police had closed off the areas.

"Both the bombs were lying outside restaurants and they were live," the official said

Bhootnath · 03-07-2006, 09:59 PM

QUOTE(ben_ami @ Mar 7 2006, 10:50 PM)whas patai?
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Oh Patai is a person, he wrote book abt ISLAM.

When you want to be a REAL REAL Secular , you see ISLAM only through PATAI's eyes, important criterea is you shld totally ignore what you see in present day India and whatever has happend in last 1000 years ... that is all suppose to be bullshit.

Patai and Google ... okay...

Regards

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