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Kashi to Kedarnath, temples hold prayers for Captain Machchhar after flydubai attack
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- BJP leaders and workers organized prayers and religious rituals at multiple major temples across India for the recovery of Captain Smit Machchhar. The pilot was injured while preventing an alleged attempt to crash a flydubai flight that was carrying 174 passengers.
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Sign in to give feedbackBJP leaders and workers held puja and havan at several temples across the country on Wednesday for the speedy recovery of Captain Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed while foiling his co-pilot's alleged attempt to crash a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv.
Prayers were organised at temples including Kashi Vishwanath Dham, the Kedarnath shrine and the Somnath temple, while offerings were also made at the Khajrana Ganesh Temple in Indore and the 108-ft Hanuman Temple in Jhandewalan in Delhi.
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