Blasts at Bodh Gaya

 Blasts at Bodh Gaya

 

Serial Blast at Bodh Gaya in Bihar rocked the area on Sunday Morning.  A total of 10 blasts in which the first one went off at 5.45 a.m. all in and around the famous shrine of Buddhists.  The blasts took place after the daily chanting for 30 minutes was over and were going in to the temple for doing meditation after that.  

Mahabodhi temple is the place where Buddha had realization as the Buddhists believe and it is a place of worship for many pilgrims all over the world.  Intelligence agencies say that the incident may be a retort from Muslim terrorists for the recent violence in Myanmar where Muslim groups were targeted.  The agencies were having information that Buddhist places will be the targets of Indian Muzahideen.

Delhi vigilance says that the Bihar Government did not take their prior intimation of suspected attacks.  The Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar rushed to the spot.  He said that he requested the center to send NIA for investigation and Central Industrial Security Force to take rescue operations.  

BJP criticized JD(U) Government and shouted slogan against it and called for a bundh to day.  

The Special Task Force arrested Anwar Hussain Mullick at Kolkata bus stand on Saturday in the late hours who was found having possession of fake Indian Currency and explosives.  They are thinking in the lines of a connection between the terrorists’ organization he works with and the serial blasts in Bodh Gaya.  

The authorities say that the main Buddha Idol is not damaged in the blasts.The Ministry of Home Affairs sent alerts to all Buddhists' places of worship in the Country in the wake of the blasts at Bodh Gaya.

(AW-SriJa)

An Old Building In Capital Collapsed

An Old Building In Capital Collapsed | Building Collapsed in Secunderabad

An age old building on Rashtrapati Road (RP Road) in Securnderabad collapsed today in the early morning at about 6.55 am.  The two storey building that housed a restaurant called City Light Hotel first tilted to its left side and then collapsed.   So far 18 persons are rescued and shifted to Gandhi Hospital and 6 out of them are reported to have dead.  

No one is in a position to ascertain the actual number of persons in the building when it came down.  Authorities are estimating that a number of 20 may be still there either live or dead.  But the locals and eye witnesses say that about 50 persons may be there under the debris waiting for the rescue teams to get them out.  The debris show red soil with which it was constructed and also it shows that the construction is very old.

Locals first went to the rescue of the persons that were struck up under the debris.  Then Fire department, police and municipality personnel reached the spot.  Main reason for the collapse is said to be of its coming of age.  And added to it a water tank is recently constructed on the roof of the building that might have made the building buckle.  

As it is a busy place with many going to the restaurant to have a cup of tea in the morning and a loaded truck also is found there with sand crew of which might have gone in to the ill fated building at that time, altogether a number of at least 40 persons are expected to be there under the debris as per the locals’ statement.  

GHMC says that it served a notice long back to evacuate the building as it was old enough not hold any more.  But no one related to the restaurant is available to give the information about the collapse and possible loss.

(AW-SriJa)