Security up at Shiva temple

By IANS
Thursday, July 22, 2010

RANCHI - Security has been strengthened at the famous Shiva temple in Deoghar in Jharkhand ahead of a 30-day festival starting July 26, police said Thursday.

During the festival, around four million people visit the Baba Baidyanath temple to offer holy water.

On Wednesday, a man was arrested in the temple with a knife.

“Hundreds of security personnel have been deployed around the temple.” Neyaz Ahmad, Jharkhand’s director general of police, told reporters.

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