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Hyderabad:
Hyderabad, India: Twenty persons were killed and nearly 60 injured in two powerful near-simultaneous blasts at a crowded park and a popular eating joint in Hyderabad on Saturday evening.Eight persons died when an explosion ripped through an auditorium in Lumbini Park in the heart of Hyderabad when a laser show was on, police said. The blast occurred at about 7.45 pm when the laser show had just started. So powerful was the blast that some of the bodies were flung into the air and scattered over the area. The police rushed to the spot and took the injured to the nearby Mediciti hospital. The condition of several injured persons is stated to be critical. In another blast around the same time at Gokul Chat Bhandar at Kothi area, at least 12 persons were killed and scores were injured. The police is not sure whether it was a LPG cylinder burst or a bomb explosion. The injured were rushed to Osmania General Hospital. The police cordoned off the areas and sounded a red alert across Hyderabad and conducted searches at railway stations and bus depots. Soon after the explosion, Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy reviewed the situation with Director-General of Police M A Basith and other top officials. Posted by: john frum 2007-08-25 |
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