He then lights the wick of a petrol-filled beer bottle and hurls it at the church door, about 15 metres from the gate. "Fortunately, the church door and the main gate were locked and our CCTV was functioning," Jayabhushan said. The only attack on a Tumkur church in recent memory happened in September 2007, when vandals broke into the Gregorious Church and damaged the altar and the sacred vestments. On June 24, a concrete road sign on Reverend Sadedore Road was found demolished and a board displaying the name of Reverend Tomlinson Road was defaced. The singed door and wall of the church in Tumkur Bangalore, July 15: A petrol bomb thrown at a Protestant church weeks after road signs carrying Christian priests' names were vandalised has stoked concern in Tumkur, a largely peaceful city 80km north of Bangalore.

Source: The Telegraph July 15, 2016 21:33 UTC