Nepal, on Monday, stepped up security at all of its Buddhist shrines, including lumbini, a day after 10 low-intensity serial blasts rocked the historic Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya in the neighbouring Indian State of Bihar.
A security alert has been sounded in all major Buddhist Stupas and shrines in Nepal, where lord Buddha was born some 2,600 years ago, according to a top official of Nepal Police. Security has been stepped up in lumbini, the birth place of Buddha, Tilaurakot of Kapilvastu, and Swoyambhu and Bouddhanath in Kathmandu, which are also the major tourist attractions, said Nabaraj Silwal, spokesman of Nepal Police.
“We will soon deploy more security personnel in these Buddhist shrines in view of the recent attack on the Buddhist shrine in India,” he told on Sunday. Terror struck one of the holiest Buddhist shrines, the Mahabodhi Temple, and other places in Bihar's pilgrimage town of Bodh Gaya, with suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives simultaneously triggering 10 low intensity bombs leaving two monks injured.