At least 10 killed, scores injured in Hyderabad blasts

At least 10 people were killed and scores injured in two blasts near Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad on Thursday night.

“It appears to be a terrorist attack, though we have not yet got full information of the incident. At least 10 are dead,” DGP V. Dinesh Reddy told The Hindu.

Mr. Reddy who attended a meeting on Internal Security in Delhi returned to Hyderabad and was on his way from the airport to the blast site. “One blast was in Hyderabad commissionerate area and another in Cyberabad area around Dilsukhnagar,” Mr. Reddy said. Dilsukhanagar is an area which is on the border of the two commissionerates.

The Hindu reporter who rushed to the Osmania General Hospital reports that police had brought four bodies in an RTC bus to the mortuary. Many injured people were being brought to the hospital.

PTI adds:

Police said the bombs may have been placed in a cycle.

Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh said the NSG team is leaving by a BSF aircraft. A team of NIA hub stationed in Hyderabad has also rushed to the spot.

The first blast was reported at a park and it was followed by another in a eating joint in Hyderabad.

Chief Minister N Kiran Reddy rushed to the blast site.

The previous major attack in Hyderabad was on August 25, 2007 when two blasts took place almost simultaneously.

NSG team sent

A team of forensic experts of NSG, the country’s premier counter-terror force, was tonight flown to Hyderabad in the aftermath of the serial blasts that claimed at least 10 lives.

The ‘post-blasts’ analysis team have been sent to Hyderabad, sources said, adding experts from the Chennai hub of the ‘black cat’ commandos force have also been rushed to the Andhra Pradesh capital.

The NSG, which is also the key force for counter-hijack operations, operates the National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC) which has detail information about such acts in the country.

The team will collect samples from the spot and analyse the ‘trigger mechanism’ used in the blasts, the sources added.