Blasts In Hindu Temples in India

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<b>Six dead, more than 60 hurt in India blasts</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Police 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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<b>The blast was so powerful that it could be heard across the town and we have moved five or six badly-burned dead," </b>an eyewitness said.

<b>"Everyone was running. There were corpses lying around,"</b> 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.

<b>"Forty (people) were injured ... and 22 of them are in serious condition," </b>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.

<b>"Both the bombs were lying outside restaurants and they were live,"</b> the official said
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