Two bomb blasts rock
Hyderabad
Two blasts rocked
Hyderabad in the Dilsukh Nagar area of the city today resulting in casualties.
Reports say many people have been killed.
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10:54 PMThe security agencies sent another advisory yesterday
saying banned Indian Mujahideen too may carry out terror attacks to avenge the
hanging of Kasab and Afzal.
10:53 PMCentral security agencies had sent an advisory on
Tuesday asking all states to tighten security in sensitive places as
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen may launch attacks.
10:53 PMA PTI report says two days before the Hyderabad blasts,
the Centre had alerted all states that Pakistan-based terrorist groups may
carry out attacks in a major city to avenge the hanging of Ajmal Kasab and
Afzal Guru.
10:41 PM"Explosives were very powerful and two blasts
simultaneously indicate that this was a terror strike."
- Home secretary RK
Singh
10:38 PM"I express my condolences to the family members of those
killed in the blast. This is a condemnable incident. I hope the government will
take appropriate action to provide immediate and adequate relief to those
injured in the blast."
- BJP president
Rajnath Singh
10:18 PMAlert sounded in Kerala
10:10 PMHyderabad’s Dilsukhnagar area is thickly populated and
traffic jams are routine in the evenings with officegoers and students rushing
home. Large number of people wait at the numerous bus shelters, eateries and
shops in the area.
10:09 PMThe twin blasts, described as dastardly by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, triggered a stampede-like situation with people trying
to scamper for safety as it left a bloody trail.
10:09 PMThe home minister says the twin blasts were triggered by
improvised explosive devices (IED) tied to two bicyles. The blasts took place
in the peak hour at two sites 100 to 150 metres apart outside a roadside eatery
near Konark and Venkatadiri theatres in the area located on the
Hyderabad-Vijaywada national highway in Cyberabad Police limits.
09:38 PMAuthorities and onlookers are pictured at the site of a
bomb blast at Dilshuk Nagar in Hyderabad.
09:30 PM"There were two blasts in Dilsukh Nagar. I have spoken to
the chief minister (Kiran Kumar Reddy) and he told me that the bombs were
placed in two cycles and in one place eight people were killed and in other
place three people were killed. 50 people were also injured."
- Home minister
Sushilkumar Shinde
09:29 PMHome minister Sushilkumar Shinde says the two bombs were
placed within a radius of 100 to 150 metres in two bicycles.
- Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
09:20 PMPrime minister Manmohan Singh describes the twin blasts
in Hyderabad as an "dastardly attack" and says the guilty should not
"go unpunished."
- Sushilkumar Shinde
09:10 PMPM sanctions Rs 2 lakh each to next of kin of those
killed in Hyderabad blasts and Rs 50,000 each to those seriously injured.
08:56 PMToday’s first blast was reported at a park and it was
followed by another in an eating joint in Hyderabad.
08:56 PMThe previous major attack in Hyderabad was on August 25,
2007 when two blasts took place almost simultaneously.
- Union home secretary
RK Singh
08:53 PMMaharashtra Police have been told to keep a vigil on
suspicious activity and persons in view of the Hyderabad blasts.
08:50 PM"A high alert has been sounded across Maharashtra in the
wake of the blasts in Hyderabad this evening"
- Maharashtra home
minister RR Patil
08:12 PMA series of powerful blasts rocked Hyderabad today
evening. 15 people are feared killed and over 50 injured
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