Story highlights Four of the eight explosions take place at the Mahabodi complex 
 
 The temple houses a tree where Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment 
 
 Suspicion falls on the Islamist group Indian Mujahideen 
 
 A series of small bombs went off in and around a world-famous Buddhist temple in eastern India Sunday, injuring two people, authorities said. 
 
 Four of the eight explosions occurred at the Mahabodhi temple complex, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Bihar state that houses a tree where Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. 
 
 The temple itself was not damaged. 
 
 The other four blasts hit other sacred locations around Mahabodhi, said Bihar police official S.K. Bhardwaj. 
 
 A 50-year-old Tibetan and a 30-year-old Myanmar national were injured in the attack, Bhardwaj said. 
 
 While no one took responsibility for the attack, suspicion fell on the home-grown Islamist group Indian Mujahideen, Bhardwaj said. 
 
 The group, designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, is blamed for dozens of deadly bomb explosions throughout India since 2005. ||||| Image caption The Bodh Gaya temple complex is one of the oldest in India 
 
 A series of blasts has shaken India's holiest Buddhist shrine, where the Buddha himself is said to have gained enlightenment, police have said. 
 
 Two people were injured in nine explosions in the Bodh Gaya temple complex, in northern Bihar state. 
 
 Police described the bombs as low-intensity timed devices. Windows and one door in the complex were damaged. 
 
 The Indian government said the blasts were a terror attack. No group has said it was responsible. 
 
 Witnesses said some of the bombs exploded close to the Bodhi tree, thought to be a descendant of the one that the Buddha sat under when he achieved enlightenment, according to tradition. 
 
 Police said there was no damage to the tree. 
 
 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh strongly condemned the blasts, saying: "Such attacks on religious places will be never be tolerated." 
 
 The Bodh Gaya complex is one of the oldest Buddhist sites in India. It was listed as a world heritage site by the UN cultural organisation Unesco in 2002. 
 
 Correspondents say attacks on Buddhists are rare in India, but there have been recent Muslim-Buddhist tensions in nearby Burma (also called Myanmar), Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. 
 
 The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, went on a quest for enlightenment some time in the 5th or 6th Century BC. He is said to have achieved it while sitting under the Bodhi tree (tree of awakening). 
 
 There are currently some 376 million followers of Buddhism worldwide. ||||| Debris of damaged structures lie on a wall decorated with a motifs of Hindu goddess at the spot where a massive fire broke out during a fireworks display at the Puttingal temple complex in Paravoor village,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Debris of damaged structures lie on a wall decorated with a motifs of Hindu goddess at the spot where a massive fire broke out during a fireworks display at the Puttingal temple complex in Paravoor village, Kollam district, southern Kerala state, India, Monday, April 11, 2016. Rescue officials on Monday... (Associated Press) 
 
 PARAVOOR, India (AP) — Medical teams on Monday tended to hundreds of people injured in a massive fire that killed at least 110 people, while authorities searched for those responsible for illegally putting on the fireworks display that caused the weekend blaze at a Hindu temple in southern India. 
 
 Amid the burned wreckage of the Puttingal Devi temple complex in the village of Paravoor, rescue officials sifted through huge piles of dust, wood and concrete for clues about how an unauthorized pyrotechnic display staged before dawn Sunday sparked a fire that swept through the temple as it was packed with thousands for a religious festival. 
 
 Police detained five workers for questioning about fireworks stored at the site, hoping to learn more about who owned the fireworks and who had contracted the pyrotechnical display, police constable R. Unnikrishnan Nair said. The five were later released, but Nair did not say whether they were able to help authorities track down any of the 15 temple board members who fled after the accident. 
 
 The Press Trust of India news agency reported that police were investigating six people — missing temple board members and associates of firework contractors — for possible charges of attempted murder and culpable homicide, both punishable by life imprisonment, and illegally storing a cache of explosives. 
 
 As of Monday afternoon, the death toll from the disaster stood at 110, with more than 380 injured, including many with burn injuries and others hurt when an adjacent building storing fireworks collapsed, police said. 
 
 Following the fire, which broke out around 3 a.m. Sunday, villagers and police pulled many of the injured out from under slabs of concrete and twisted steel girders. They were taken to hospitals in the Kerala state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Paravoor, as well as the nearby city of Kollam. 
 
 Scores of worried relatives crowded the Kollam District Hospital on Monday, searching for loved ones still missing. 
 
 "We are just trying to calm them down so that they can give us the information, with which we can help them find their missing relatives," said K. Shijil, a help-desk worker at the hospital who was giving out emergency kits that included a towel, clothes, drinking water and cookies. 
 
 Among a throng of people crowding the help desk was Somraj, a gray-haired man in his 50s. He was looking for his son-in-law, Anu Lal, who had been watching the fireworks show with him when the disaster occurred. 
 
 "We were about to return home, when Anu said, 'Let's watch for a few more minutes,'" recalled Somraj, who like many in southern India goes by one name. "Then came this loud explosion, and everything went dark. I've been searching for him everywhere." 
 
 The fire started when a spark from the fireworks display ignited a stash of fireworks that had been stored at the temple complex. 
 
 Scores of devotees ran in panic as the massive initial blast cut off power in the complex. Flames trapped many devotees inside the compound. More explosions sent flames and debris raining down, with some chunks of concrete falling as far as 1 kilometer (half a mile) away, a witness said. 
 
 "It was complete chaos," villager Krishna Das said. "People were screaming in the dark. Ambulance sirens went off, and in the darkness no one knew how to find their way out of the complex." 
 
 TV channels showed video of huge clouds of white smoke billowing from the temple, as fireworks were still going off in the sky. 
 
 Most of the 110 deaths occurred when the building where the fireworks were stored collapsed, according to Kerala state's chief minister, Oommen Chandy. 
 
 Most of the bodies have been identified, officials said, though there were still at least 11 unknown victims charred beyond recognition. 
 
 District authorities worried about safety had denied permission to the temple this year for its annual competitive fireworks show, during which different groups put on displays at the end of a seven-day festival honoring the goddess Bhadrakali, a southern Indian incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali. 
 
 "They were clearly told that no permission would be given for any kind of fireworks," said A. Shainamol, the district's top official. She said officials had worried that the competing sides would try to outdo each other with more and more fireworks, and nearby residents had complained that the shows were a nuisance and a fire hazard. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Nirmala George and Katy Daigle in New Delhi contributed to this report.
– Two people were injured as a number of small bombs hit a major Buddhist temple yesterday in eastern India. The Mahabodhi temple complex, home to a tree where Buddha is said to have reached enlightenment, was struck by at least four blasts, but the temple wasn't damaged, CNN reports—nor was the tree, though bombs reportedly went off nearby, the BBC adds. Several other explosions hit sacred spots near the UNESCO World Heritage Site, in India's Bihar state, police say. The injured were a Tibetan, 50, and a Burmese national, 30. No group took responsibility for the attack, but authorities suspect Indian Islamist group Mujahideen.