13 bombs planted at Mahabodhi: Shinde

• Ten had exploded, three defused
• 1 person held; bandh hits life

Talegaon/Gaya (PTI): The Home minister Sushil kumar Shinde on Monday said that a total number of 13 bombs were planted inside the Mahabodhi temple complex, out of which ten had exploded injuring two monks. "Today, I have the information of 10 blasts. A total of 13 bombs were placed there. I will not go into details where they were kept and all. Two persons have been injured � 50-year-old Dorji and Bala Sanga (30)," Shinde told reporters here. "Our investigation is progressing and I would not like to say anything more. The home ministry took immediate action and NIA (National Investigation Agency) teams were sent to Bodh Gaya," he said. Earlier on Sunday, officials said nine blasts took place between 5.30 am and 6 am at the 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple, annually visited by millions of pilgrims from all over the world, especially from Sri Lanka, China, Japan and the Southeast Asia region. Meanwhile, the NIA detained one person on Monday in connection with the serial blasts. DIG, Magadh range, Nayyer Hasnain Khan said an identity card was found within the temple premises on Sunday on the basis of which the person was detained. "One suspect hailing from Barachatti block in Gaya has been detained and we are questioning him. We have been analyzing the footage and based on that some more people would be questioned soon," a senior police official said. "All the CCTV cameras in the Mahabodhi temple premises were fully functional. As you must have seen in the CCTV footage, both state security personnel and temple's own security personnel were present. I don't think there was any lapse on security front," the official said. Police are probing links of a man arrested with explosives to the banned terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen, suspected to be involved in Bodh Gaya bomb blasts, officials said. "Anwar Hussain Mullick, 42, was arrested from a bus stop in the heart of the city late on Saturday evening with explosives and fake Indian currency notes," a senior official of the Special Task Force said here Sunday. Meanwhile, normal life was severely hit in the district on Monday as BJP and RJD gave separate bandh calls to protest against the state government's alleged security lapses that led to the terror attack in the temple town.