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Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee speaks to newsmen after a visit to the Akshardham temple. — Reuters, PTI photo

Priests talk after commandos flushed out gunmen from the complex in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. — Reuters, PTI photo

Security personnel frisk a foreigner at Birla Mandir in New Delhi on Wednesday after an all-round alert was sounded. — Reuters, PTI photo

Mr Bill Clinton, the then US President, with the Founder of Akshardham at Gandhinagar, Pramukh Swamiji Maharaj, during his visit to the temple on April 5, 2001. — File photo by Raj Sadosh

A commando (R) gestures as he stands near the bodies of two militants killed during an overnight siege in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. — Reuters photo

Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi inspect  the blood-stained Exhibition Hall where the militants were involved in gun battles. — PTI photo

Security personnel patrol the Akshardham temple after commandos flushed out gunmen on Wednesday. — Reuters photo

Troops carry a coffin, draped in an Indian flag, containing the body of a National Security Guards commando in New Delhi on Wednesday. The commando was killed in last night's raid on the Akshardham temple. — Reuters photo

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee talks with newsmen during a visit to the Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. — Reuters photo