Varanasi: A red alert has been sounded in this temple city with increased deployment in view of the serial blasts in Jaipur, which claimed 60 lives and left over 150 injured.

A red alert has been declared in Varanasi and deployemnt at sensitive places has been enhanced, DIG, Police, S N Sabat, said.

He said checking of vehicles at sensitive places has been intensified and extra forces have been deployed in and around the important temples and vital installations.

"Though there is no specific threat of any terror attack in the city we are leaving nothing to chance", he said.
Source : PTI