Mahabodhi hosts Buddhist temples and attract a large number of pilgrims, especially from Japan, Thailand and Myanmar.
BODHGAYA: A Buddhist monk and a pilgrim were injured when as many as eight explosions rocked the Mahabodhi temple in the Bodhgaya district in the Indian state of Bihar early on Sunday morning, NDTV reported.
According to the report, the first blast took place inside the temple complex shortly after 5 am. That initial explosion was followed by seven successive explosions.
Another bomb was also reportedly found near the site and defused.
The bombs were of low intensity and did not damage the temple.
The injured were rushed the hospital.
The temple was largely empty with only a few pilgrims and the cleaning staff present at the time of the blasts.
"We were doing our daily rituals in the temple when we heard a big explosion," an eyewitness said.
The temple premises have been cordoned off. Reports say security has been beefed up in and around other religious sites of the district.
Mahabodhi hosts Buddhist temples and attract a large number of pilgrims, especially from Japan, Thailand and Myanmar.
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Bodhgaya is a sacred site to Buddhists just like amritsar is to me and mecca for Muslims. It has been targeted needlessly. There was no security issues when I went there and paid homage to the trees and had chai with all the monks there. God is watching, these blasts will lower regards for muslims here and the world. Wahabbi , Saudi Islam is spreading like a curse in Bihar.is Mr nitish Kumar watching, Buddhists are the most peaceful people on the planet and I am a Indian sikh defending them. Rab rakha,
Islamic terrorism want to destroy every religion and there religious places . They think not about the impact of there terrorist activity on the Muslim who live in non Muslim countries .These so-called Muslims defamed there religion and innocent coreligionist also.
The mentality which destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan are also responsible for this.
Shame.
I don't understand what the militants get by attacking non-Muslim places of worship in non-Muslim countries. Don't they have a better job to do, like, I don't know, implement Sharia in Muslim majority countries?
Now religion of piece has its eye on Buddhism . Lets see what our inept gov does .
Bodh Gaya to Buddhists is what Mecca is to Muslims. It was Jihadi islam which brought down the Bamyan Buddhas down first. Then you have Islamists vs Buddhism in Thailand, Mynamar and now even in Sri Lanka. How will Muslims feel if great Mosque in mecca is bombed ?
@ethicalman: This IM is a fiction and the creation of the secular gang who have not been able to lay their hands on the real murderers.
Its war between Religion of peace (Budhisum) vs Religion which keeps peoples rest of life in peace (Islam) though peace word is there in both religion ..
u have to be human or Muslim ... choose the right one
these blasts are done by Indian Mujhadin operatives..so first they blasted Hindu temples like Sankat Mochan in varanasi, Akshardham in Gujrat..and now it's the turn of Buddhist temples..
its very simple pakis are responsible for this no doubt.