CHENNAI, INDIA, November 26, 2002: Armed police have been deployed at all major temples in Tamil Nadu in the wake of last Sunday’s terrorist attack in the Raghunath Temple in Jammu. Armed guards frisked devotees entering the Lord Kapaleewswar temple and the Lord Parthasarathy temple, among others, in Chennai. Security was also tightened at temples and major railway stations in the pilgrim centers of Madurai (Meenakshi Amman temple), Srirangam (Sri Ranganathaswamy temple), Tiruchirapalli (Rockfort Ganesha temple), Samayapuram (Goddess Mariamman temple), Palani (Lord Murugan temple) and Rameswaram (of Lord Siva).
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