A grenade attack occurred at the Thakur Dwar Mandir in Amritsar, Punjab. Two youths on a motorcycle hurled the explosive at the temple and fled. The incident was captured on CCTV footage. The blast damaged the temple's wall and windows, alarming residents in the densely populated Khandwala area. This attack on a religious site follows previous incidents targeting police stations in Punjab.
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00:00News coming in from the state of Punjab now, a grenade attack has taken place on a temple in Amritsar.
00:06Two youth hurled a grenade at the Thakur Dwara Mandir.
00:10Backers fled the spot after the grenade attack.
00:13The incident has been captured on CCTV footage.
00:16Visuals that you are seeing on your screens are coming in from Amritsar in the state of Punjab.
00:21There has been a grenade attack on a temple.
00:25My colleague Asim Basi is now joining me on the story.
00:29Asim, we can very clearly see in the CCTV footage there were two people who were on a bike.
00:34They threw the grenade at the Thakur Dwara Mandir and then they fled the spot after the grenade attack took place.
00:40It's all very clear and it's evidence which has been captured on the CCTV footage.
00:45Yes, it's very clear. In the past also we have seen that in Punjab, the police station, the police chowkies have come under grenade attacks from anti-social elements.
00:56But now this time, a religious place, a temple has come under attack.
01:01And you can see clearly, the CCTV shows how two motorcyclists came there on a bike and they stopped for a while.
01:08And then they hurled some explosive on a temple and we also spoke to the priest there.
01:14He said that the damages were done, the wall was broken, the window panes were broken and the blast was so loud that the entire locality, the people, it was a densely populated area, Khandwala, where this temple is.
01:27The people woke up and they were in utter shock.
01:29Although, the city police is tight-lipped over this, but the police commissioner, Gurpreet Bhullar, will be visiting this spot shortly.
01:37But yes, this entire CCTV footage clearly shows that how two motorcyclists came there late in the night and hurled some explosive on a temple.
01:46And this is a really shocking incident which has come up in Punjab after a flurry of attacks on police stations and police chowkies.
01:52Now, a religious place has come under attack, which is quite unfortunate.
01:56Thank you Haseen for giving us details and you also pointed out to us the fact that this is not the first time we are seeing these kind of incidents taking place over the past many months.
02:05These kind of incidents have increased across the state of Punjab.