Petrol bombs hurled at temple premises with priest inside of amid articulate over Prophet row in Ranchi

Four petrol bombs had been hurled inside of Surya Mandir in Ranchi on Friday night time. (India This day photos)

After violent protests raged in Jharkhand’s Ranchi on Friday, unidentified miscreants hurled petrol bombs at a temple in the metropolis later that night time, police acknowledged.

The attack took plan around uninteresting night time. The priest of Surya Mandir and his family had been asleep on the temple premises when four petrol bombs had been hurled inside of. They instantly advised the police, nonetheless by the time the law enforcement officers arrived, the miscreants had fled the gap.

The priest and his family had been entirely shaken by the attack and acknowledged they accumulate got been unable to sleep since final night time.

Police acknowledged an investigation is underway to name and nab the culprits.

The attack on the temple got here hours after an irate mob swept by substances of Ranchi to articulate in opposition to the controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad made by BJP chief Nupur Sharma.

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The protests, one of many reported in other cities across the nation, broke out after Friday prayers. Demonstrators bearing placards and shouting slogans demanded the BJP chief’s arrest for her controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad.

Issues took a violent flip when police personnel deployed to raise the speak under retain a watch on baton-charged the protesters, who retaliated by pelting stones, resulting in injuries to various law enforcement officers and folks caught in the defective fireplace.

In the cease, police needed to resort to firing in the air to disperse the violent mob. The wounded had been taken to Rajendra Institute of Clinical Sciences (RIMS) for treatment. Amongst them, two folks later succumbed to their injuries, hospital authorities acknowledged on Saturday.

In the wake of the violence, prohibitory orders had been imposed in substances of the metropolis, and web products and companies had been suspended. Bulletins had been being made by the general public address machine in all localities, advising residents no longer to project outside, in every other case they’d b