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Another burst of criticism greeted Justice Chandrachud’s comment last month when he said he had asked God for a solution to the vexed Babri Mosque-Ram temple dispute.

Earlier this year, PM Modi inaugurated a grand new temple at the site, fulfilling a longstanding promise by his party.

"It's hard to see what they would gain in a military sense, bombing a Roman temple."

It was built on the site of an ancient Philistine temple before being converted into a church and then a mosque.

Bachir Khodr also said a "missile fell in the car park" of the ancient Roman temple complex in the city of Baalbek, which is a Unesco World Heritage site, and that there were reports of damage to the historic Manchieh district.