Thirty people were killed and scores injured when two powerful, simultaneous explosions ripped through a crowded place at Koti and at Lumbini Park in front of the Secretariat here at 8.10 p.m. on Saturday.
The injured were shifted to hospitals. The condition of many is said to be critical. Medical and para-medical staff at the Osmania General Hospital were struggling to cope with the situation. Chaos prevailed at the bomb blast sites.
Police declared a red alert throughout the capital and in the neighbouring Cyberabad commissionerate.
The popular Lumbini park was crowded during the weekend and the bomb went off near the spot where about 40 engineering college students from Nasik in Maharashtra were watching a laser show. They were on an excursion trip.
The park is on the banks of the Hussainsagar lake and right in front of the main gate of the Secretariat.
The park is on the banks of the Hussainsagar lake and right in front of the main gate of the Secretariat.
Till last reports came in, six persons were killed and at least 20 injured in the blast at the park.
In Koti, one of the most crowded junctions in central Hyderabad, an explosive device went off at Gokul Chat, a popular eatery, killing 24 people. Passers-by stopped a city bus, carried the injured into it and shifted them to the Osmania General Hospital.
The Bharatiya Janata Party Greater Hyderabad committee was holding a meeting at the VV Function Hall, barely a kilometre from the Koti bomb blast site.
The meeting was being addressed by the former BJP president and MP, M. Venkaiah Naidu.
Tension mounted in the sensitive areas of the twin cities; police stepped up mobile and foot patrolling.
The entire city police has been ordered ‘stand-to.’
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