Hours after twin blasts, live bomb recovered in Hyderabad
Sunday August 26 2007 00:01 IST
PTI
HYDERABAD: Hours after the twin blasts this evening, the city police recovered a live bomb from Dilsukhnagar area and defused it in time, averting another tragedy.
The bomb was planted underneath a foot-over-bridge with a timer set for 9.30 pm, police sources said.
The near-simultaneous blasts at Lumbini park and Gokul chat bhandar were triggered by cell-phone timers, city police commissioner Balwinder Singh told reporters.
So far, 11 bodies have been identified and five of them are women. One of the deceased was a house surgeon of Osmania medical college who hailed from Prakasam district.
Meanwhile, TDP president and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu alleged the incidents were a result of intelligence failure. BJP leaders M Venkaiah Naidu and B Dattatreya strongly condemned the incident and said it was time for the governments to act tough against foreign terrorist groups.
They accused the Congress government of adopting a soft approach towards terror groups which have been targeting the city.
State secretary of CPI (M) B V Raghavulu said the blasts appeared to be a pre-planned terror attack.
